Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wriston Plan has hardly even begun to fulfill goals hoped for by its early advocates. Barriers still exist between the fraternity man and independent--barriers made all the more glaring because posedly "separate but equalities for the fraternities independents now lie on either a thin fire wall...
Goldwater told the 2500 people who filled Loew's Theatre here that the West's critical error in Berlin was allowing the wall separating the two sectors the city to be built. "The decision to push over that wall would have been silly," he admitted, "but we would have emereged the victors...
...that there is little time to waste if the U.S. hopes to work with the Common Market before it hardens its position. If the U.S. should be denied the European market, warned Kennedy, "we will either find a flight of capital from this country to construct factories within that wall, or we will find ourselves in serious economic trouble. We cannot just sell and never buy." To convince the nation that the new trade laws would do far more good than harm-and are, in any case, essential to the U.S. role in the free world-the Administration is already...
Tension over Berlin was clearly easing last week. Not since the building of Walter Ulbricht's ugly Wall last summer had the city been so calmly sure that it would survive, free. The calm may be shattered again any day the Russians choose to get nasty, but in the West Berlin senate last week Mayor Willy Brandt proclaimed flatly that the Communists' war of nerves had failed...
...signs, Brandt maintained, show-that the shock and dismay caused by the Wall had begun to wear off. West Berlin's industrial production, said Brandt, is higher than it was a year ago, incoming orders exceed those of October 1960, and employment is on the rise; tax revenues are increasing steadily and savings accounts are satisfactory. After West Berlin's 1958 crisis, Brandt continued, it took seven months before bank deposits returned to normal; today deposits are bouncing back far faster. Some of the signs cited by Brandt may be the result of artificial respiration. More important...