Word: zoning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tree outside the apartment house. One of the Russians dropped Bauer with four submachine gun slugs. Over his dead body that Christmas morning, police and Russians fought for 20 minutes until the carbines of the West's riot squad drove the Russians back into their own zone...
...Berlin's East zone one day last week, a squad of Communist police sped to the Märkisches Museum and shouldered their way inside. A few minutes later they came out bearing two leather-bound volumes darkened with age. The books thus placed under "state protection" were the rare (but not invaluable) 1541 edition of the Martin Luther Bible. What made this particular Bible worth state protection to culture-conscious East zone Reds were the three drawings inside: freshly discovered work of the early 16th century German master, Mathias Griinewald...
...three small (12 in. high) drawings which Berlin's East zone police hauled away last week make a total of 36 known Griinewald sketches, and they show his unmistakable touch. While they are untitled, all three seem to be animated drawings of Biblical figures, swiftly brushed out in watercolor and filled in with shades of grey and white chalk. Says Berlin's Professor Will Grohmann, a top German art expert: "A sensational find...
Naturally, these treasonous baubles turn Viveca's head. By the fadeout, the attache and the by-now-thoroughly-glamorous Viveca have escaped from Czechoslovakia to the U.S. zone in Austria, outwitting a political-police chief who is addicted to such pronouncements as "Love is purely a private enterprise. The state must come first." Of some interest in the proceedings are the authentic-looking backgrounds, filmed entirely in Austria...
...From every nook in Germany they came. There were 119 generals and 40-odd colonels-much of what is left of the stiff-necked high command of Hitler's Wehrmacht. They met early this month in a smoke-filled beer hall in the U.S. zone city of Stuttgart; their host was a self-styled "aristocrat and man of the world": Ernst von Reichenau, brother of the Nazis' famed Field Marshal Walter von Reichenau...