Word: walls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Through Wynne and others, Penkovsky leaked details of the impending Berlin Wall operation (apparently disbelieved by the West, or at least not acted upon), and the presence and location of missiles installed by Russia in Cuba before the crisis of 1962 (information that may have aided Washington in calling Khrushchev's bluff...
...afterlife," he said, "this life is not even worth the effort of getting dressed in the morning." Freud called the belief that death is the door to a better life "the oldest, strongest and most insistent wish of mankind." But now death is steadily becoming more of a wall and less of a door...
...constitutional command erects a wall of privacy that U.S. police cannot breach without a valid search warrant. But even so, the wall has gaping holes. Police are free to use evidence gained by peering in the locked windows of a private house; they can also plant electronic "bugs" on outside walls to record conversations inside. Unless they unlock the windows or pierce the walls, they need no warrant-for the moment at least, the line is drawn at actual physical intrusion...
Opting for a bare raked forestage, Annals has erected a plain wooden back-wall containing an enormous medallion, which can open to form a twelve-rayed golden Incan sun and reveal a raised acting area behind. This sun is so constructed that, in a way I must not reveal, it later contributes appreciably in conveying a feeling of horror at the Spaniards' avaricious plundering of Incan wealth. His exotic, colorful (and, at one point, tinnient) costumes for the Peruvians contrast effectively with the Spaniards' blacks and grays, only occasionally relieved by white and red. And Martin Aronstein's lighting...
Married. John A. Roosevelt, 49, vice president of Wall Street's Bache & Co. and youngest of F.D.R.'s five children; and Irene Boyd McAlpin, 34, Manhattan socialite; both for the second time; in Manhattan, 7 days after he had been divorced in Mexico by Anne Clark Roosevelt, 49, his wife of 27 years...