Word: zone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Funsters scored in the second, third and fourth quarters, the first tally coming when end Bruce Downey caught a long pass and crossed into the end zone. Dunster passed only four times in the game, connecting on each...
...side on the bulletin board of the new, modern post office in Augsburg, West Germany, are two notices. One is a brightly-colored poster showing scenes from East and West Germany under the bold legend: "Germany Indivisible." The other is an unobtrusive little card which announces that Soviet Zone authorities will not accept postal matter bearing the Federal Republic's "refugee stamp...
Fear of the economic consequences of reunification is one of the main reasons for apathy on the issue. Most commentators agree that reunification with the impoverished East Zone would badly strain West Germany's economy, particularly by adding tremendous new demands on the already over-burdened relief program. The West German standard of living would almost certainly suffer at first, though it might later benefit from the added markets in the East...
...high standard of living is not the only thing West Germany would have to sacrifice. The Russians have made clear that they will not agree to a reunified Germany unless the Communists retain control of the East Zone through rigged elections and unless the East Zone's economic and social structure is preserved in a reunited Germany. Although many Germans would be willing to deal for reunification on the basis of neutralization, few will accept a plan that would put a Trojan Horse of Communism in a unified Germany...
...great exception to the apathy on reunification is, naturally enough, Berlin. Encircled by the hostile Soviet Zone for ten years, at times blockaded and constantly at the Russians' mercy, Berliners are committed to this one goal with a unique urgency. And the Berliners are well aware that their view differs from the feeling of the West Germans. One Berlin student puts it this way: "Every time I go to the West I'm more and more surprised how little those people really care about reunification. They've sailed through the storm into fine weather and they just don't want...