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...Zigzag Diplomacy. Sihanouk has executed such a dizzying series of flip-flops in the cold war that he is getting to be known as the man who would rather switch than fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Southeast Asia: The Prince & the Dragon | 4/3/1964 | See Source »

...change, the big swept-wing Douglas jet crossed into Communist East Germany in the vicinity of the central Berlin air corridor. Moments later, two swift blips rose on the radar screens-Soviet MIGs in deadly pursuit. The slower-moving blip that marked the RB-66 leaped suddenly into wrenching, zigzag evasive maneuvers, four minutes later disappeared from the screen well within East German terri tory. On the ground, a German schoolboy watched the last moments of the fight: "The fighter closed on the bomber from behind and fired on it. The American plane burst into flames. I saw a fireball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cold War: The 120-Mile Error | 3/20/1964 | See Source »

...sweetest Christmas music Berliners have heard in more than two years had nothing to do with Bach or Handel. It was the ugly stutter of jackhammers tearing gates in the Berlin Wall, the whine of cranes removing zigzag barriers from heavily guarded crossing points. Then, late last week, the candy-stripe customs poles went up, and thousands of grinning, gift-laden West Berliners swarmed through the Wall for their first reunions with eastern sector relatives since August 1961. A long row of glowing charcoal braziers warmed the approach to the Oberbaum Bridge, and two brightly lit Christmas trees guarded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Berlin: The Hole in the Wall | 12/27/1963 | See Source »

KNIFE IN THE WATER. In this deft Polish thriller, two lusty men and one bikini-clad woman go out in a sloop to sail-and Director Roman Polanski sets them tacking on a zigzag course between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Dec. 20, 1963 | 12/20/1963 | See Source »

KNIFE IN THE WATER. In this deft Polish thriller, two lusty men and one bikini-clad woman go out in a sloop to sail-and Director Roman Polanski sets them tacking on a zigzag course between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Dec. 13, 1963 | 12/13/1963 | See Source »

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