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...walls now imprison East Germans-the Berlin Wall and the new 834-mile barrier that the Reds are building along the whole length of the East-West German frontier. Nevertheless, East Germans continue to escape westward-each one risking his life to seek freedom...
...most of the fallout from the current Soviet tests has been tropospheric. One of the radioactive air masses from the Russian Arctic test site rose into an air current that carried it from eastern Canada down the U.S. East Coast to Florida. Then it veered westward, along the Gulf Coast, dropping radioactivity that coated local pastures and showed up in the milk of grazing cows. Wandering clouds of tropospheric fallout from the Soviet tests have been detected over most of the Northern Hemisphere. They all crossed Soviet territory, many of them veering south across thickly populated parts of Russia while...
Just in Time. For Walter Ulbricht, East Germany's goat-bearded, Communist boss, the wall was utterly necessary to preserve the very life of his dismal satrapy. For seldom had history witnessed so great an exodus as had been flowing Westward in great clotted spurts. "You are sharing in the Great Socialist Experiment," Ulbricht cried to his people in 1949, as he cut their food ration and trimmed away their liberties. Far from sharing Ulbricht's enthusiasm, almost 3,500,000 East Germans-no less than 20% of the post-World War II population-fled to the West...
...skirmish which went by certain rules and limits, everyone was increasingly aware that a dangerous imponderable had been added to all the cautious, careful calculations about the "aching tooth" of Berlin, the bone in Khrushchev's throat. This was the presence of an ever-increasing flow of westward-moving refugees racing to use the West Berlin escape hatch. For the West to encourage it, or for the East to shut it off, could bring things to a flash point...
Last week the pesky ridge finally moved westward toward the Pacific-at least temporarily-permitting moist air to reach the high plains and letting a little rain fall. The Weather Bureau's 30-day forecast, issued late last week, predicts that the ridge will move farther out into the Pacific, allowing more than normal rain to moisten the droughty area...