Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During the 1960-61 school year, 27,000 large, wall-sized color prints of nine maps, done originally for TIME by Staff Cartographer R. M. Chapin Jr. and his assistants, were sent to schools. Included in the group sent out so far in 1961 were maps of Laos, the Congo, Algeria and Red China. Scheduled to go out before the end of the year are new maps of Brazil, Australia and Berlin, the last accompanied by a Berlin bibliography from TIME reaching back...
Gromyko: Sophistry. Gromyko listened stonily to Kennedy-except for a thin smile at a Kennedy gibe comparing Khrushchev's wall building in Berlin to the Czar's orders in Pushkin's Boris Godunov. Next day, in his reply, Gromyko used a tone that was-by Russian standards-moderate, particularly on Berlin. But there was little in his words be yond a recital of well-known Soviet points: Russia will not accept a treaty to end nuclear tests, said Gromyko, for the whole matter should be tied in with (and, presumably, stalled by) the tangled question of overall...
West of the Wall, it looked like business and pleasure as usual. Warm weather piled up Europe's shiniest traffic jams in Berlin streets. Sailboats shimmied on the Wannsee. Just outside rifle range of Ulbricht's wasteland, Kurfürstendamm shop windows were mink-lined. But for all its air of defiant normalcy. West Berlin last week breathed suspicion and uncertainty. Dismayed at the Kennedy Administration's hints of concessions over Berlin, its leaders warned gravely that the people's nerves were wearing tissue-thin. Trumpeted Bild-Zeitung's front page: is GERMANY NOW BEING...
...Strip. What mostly worried West Berlin officials was a drastic population drain that could transform the city-now one of Europe's leading cultural and industrial centers-into a ghost town. Forsaken by tourists and conventioneers, the Berlin Hilton already stands half empty. Since the week before the Wall went up, the number of citizens pulling out of West Berlin has quadrupled, from an average 75 daily to some 300. House-moving companies are booked for weeks, often months, in advance. To stay or not to stay has become the No. 1 topic at every Berlin dinner table...
...crossings daily. East Germans alone bought from 10% to 20% of all retail goods sold in West Berlin, took advantage of special rates to purchase almost 10 million theater, cinema and concert tickets yearly. To keep them inside for good, the Communists last week methodically plugged loopholes in the Wall. Along the no man's land Berliners call the Death Strip, some 3,000 men and women were deployed to clear the ground so that fugitives would find no cover from border sentries' machine guns. Only the dead may cross without hindrance. In a macabre ritual...