Word: walls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Within the cabin, pressure soared from 16.7 lbs. per sq. in. to 29 Ibs. per sq. in., rupturing the cabin wall. Robert Van Dolah, a Bureau of Mines explosives expert and a member of the investigatory panel, testified that an escape hatch capable of being opened in two or three seconds could have saved the crew. Such a hatch is now being manufactured, but the one used in Apollo took 90 seconds to open, even in normal circumstances...
...West Germans insist that East Germany must not be recognized, in part because they want to keep alive the image of a single and indivisible Germany, and in part because they feel morally indignant about the character of the East German regime. Above all, it is the Berlin wall and the death of those who attempt to cross it that outrages the West Germans...
...this indignation is misdirected. Until the wall, was erected millions of people, carrying with them money, and technical know-how, deserted their country. And many of these people were consciously lured away by the West Germans. In an open letter to the Social Democratic Party of West Germany in February 1966, Walter Ulbricht wrote: "We have not forgotten, and shall not forget, how, supported and guided by the government of the West German Federal Republic, systematic attempts were made to disorganize the health system of the [GDR German Democratic Republic] by enticing medical specialists. This disruptive activity was systematically concentrated...
...bitterness between East and West Germany does not drive from the Berlin wall. An open border existed, after all, for 13 years and there was no more harmonious cooperation than now. East and West Germany are components of different international systems and they are committed to different goals. The reunification that West Germany desires cannot be achieved by friendly negotiations any more than East Germany can hope to achieve an international identity by the same technique. But both regimes believe that they can profit politically by talking about friendly negotiations. Neither wants the negotiations. Neither expects that there will...
Four other portraits offer a comment on justice. A sheriff, a destitute migrant mother, and the wife of a lynching victim surround a rich woman who, wrapped in furs and chins, sits inside her elegant charriage. Of the four pictures, only this one has a name-title. On another wall, portraits of three anguished women precede a fourth who is perfectly sharp down to the hair on her chin. She is dead, however...