Word: zoning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first Communist move was to cut telephone connections between allied West Berlin and the Soviet zone. Meanwhile, on the edges of West Berlin, an army of axmen and ditchdiggers fell to work digging trenches, rearing up piles of dirt and felling trees to seal off the roads leading out of the city. Soviet guards barred U.S. and British military police patrols from the highways connecting isolated West Berlin and West Germany-but did not stop the vital supply traffic itself on the Autobahn. "On June 1," came an official East German announcement, "travel in the German Democratic [i.e., Communist] Republic...
...Free University was founded in 1940 during the Russian blockade of West Berlin as a protest against conditions in the Russian zone. Last summer the university received a Ford Foundation grant of $1.309,500--"in acknowledgement of the contributions it has made toward democratic education for responsible leadership...
...Beacon (Louis de Rochemont; Columbia) presents some typically melodramatic movie doings in semi-documentary style: a Communist spy ring attempts to worm some mysterious top-secret plans from a refugee scientist (Finlay Currie) through threats against his son, who is being held prisoner in Germany's Soviet zone. While the scientist feeds the spies false information, an FBI man (George Murphy) and his helpers close in on the gang after a series of chases on foot, by automobile and by boat...
Help. Last week strong allies came to De Gasperi's aid. After a month of talks in London, the U.S. and Great Britain awarded Italy virtually all the top civil administrative jobs in the allied zone of Trieste, the area passionately disputed by Italy and Yugoslavia. His government's popularity was considerably bolstered...
...stretching for just 450 miles along the narrow isthmus linking the Americas -an isthmus so curiously twisted that from Panama City the sun is seen to rise out of the Pacific. The land's best known feature, the canal, runs through the ten-mile-wide, U.S.-controlled Canal Zone which splits the republic. In the bisected nation, politics are fought out in a manner as twisted as the land's geography. Since the last election four years ago, Panama has had five Presidents. The voters picked one; the rest were hired or fired by Reluctant Strong...