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...Zielona Gora-which was Germany's Grünberg until Poland took it over after World War II-a truckload of town laborers pulled up one morning last week before a onetime German Evangelical Church, used since the Polish takeover as a Catholic parish house. As the workmen set about tossing out furniture to convert it to a community center, beshawled women clutching their rosary beads gathered and shouted imprecations. Soon husbands and sons came up, and a crowd of 5,000 was marching on the police headquarters. When somebody began to throw stones at the grim-faced Communist...
Returning Natives. While the gales of power politics howl over its head, Berlin goes about its business. By day, the streets are crowded with shoppers; the city's score of electrotechnical plants belch smoke against the Prussian-blue sky; workmen scramble over scaffolding of a $900,000 British-American cigarette factory, the newest plant in the city. With a labor force of nearly a million and only 36,000 unemployed (matching the alltime low of last September), West Berlin can boast that it is Germany's biggest industrial city...
...gravel-surfaced most of the way. it is restricted to alternating one-way traffic with cutoffs for passing. Traffic moves at a maximum speed of 15 m.p.h. To build it, the government mobilized more than 12,000 workers. Hanging by ropes over the edges of thousand-foot cliffs, workmen planted dynamite, then with pick and shovel carved the highway into near-vertical rock faces. All told, the road required 61 bridges and 85 tunnels. Accidents were almost a daily occurrence. One typhoon last August washed out four whole miles, necessitating complete rebuilding at a higher level...
Combat Pay. In Albany. X.Y.. the court of appeals ruled that Messenger Boy James Johnson, who got banged in the eye with his own misaimed paper clip, was entitled to $228.64 workmen's compensation because such shenanigans are the common pursuits of unoccupied messenger boys...
That was in 1957. Three years later there was still no church, and the stalling Communist authorities began talking vaguely of building-material shortages and the need for schools. Last week housewives saw city workmen drive up to the site, obviously intending to remove the cross. Rushing into the street, the women chanted hymns and waved placards demanding "Freedom of Religion.'' Late in the afternoon they were joined by their husbands, coming off the day shift. By the time the police arrived, a threatening mob of some 3,000 had sealed off the block. The cops used tear...