Word: walls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pledge with an eight-day working trip to Western Europe. He has had no official contact with Western Europe since 1960, and no U.S. President has toured its capitals since 1963, when John Kennedy visited. The Continent Nixon will find is a very different place. In 1963, the Berlin Wall was still new; Charles de Gaulle had not yet challenged NATO; Konrad Adenauer still held sway in West Germany; the Viet Nam war had yet to poison the ambiance of European friendship for America. Europe was still united by fear of the Russians...
...city hall steps in the spring of 1963. It will be a difficult act to follow. U.S. and German planners have scheduled Nixon's principal speech before solidly pro-American workers at the Siemens electrical factory. There was talk of dropping the now routine VIP tour of the Wall, but with the Soviets and East Germans tightening their squeeze on the city, the propaganda value of a stop at the East-West border overcame all objections...
...arrived in East Berlin for a conference-held, according to the East German news agency, in a "brotherly fighting spirit"-with military leaders from the other six Warsaw Pact countries. Yakubovsky has a Btfsplkian habit of turning up just before something big happens; he visited Berlin shortly before the Wall went up in 1961, and his tour of East Europe last summer preceded the invasion and occupation of Czechoslovakia...
...self-fulfilling expectation that prices are destined to rise higher still. Investors switch their money out of fixed-yield bonds and into stocks, which are a better hedge against inflation partly because buyers think that they are. Inflation has contributed to both the stock market overspeculation and Wall Street's glut of back-office paperwork. * Because of rampant inflation, unions increasingly demand unlimited cost-of-living wage increases instead of limited boosts. Complains Paul Carmichael, a Pittsburgh electrical workers' official: "The ink is hardly dry on labor contracts these days before price increases make them obsolete...
When a physician enters his office, his identity is immediately ratified by the tools of Hygeia that surround him. There are also the parchments on the wall to reassure him that "Dr." is part of his name. By contrast, a novelist may have a few of his books on the shelf (unlike the physician, the writer cannot bury his mistakes), but when he goes to work he is greeted by the gaping anonymity of blank paper. More than most working people, the professional writer of fiction must constantly create himself out of himself if he is to know...