Word: zoning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Halfway around the world, blonde, blue-eyed Traude Eisenkolb, 19, also found the toiler's glory. She was a stenographer at the Maxhütte Steel Works in Saalfeld, a small industrial town in Germany's Eastern zone, when the Communists launched a drive to bring more young people into the steel industry. What was needed to put the drive across was a little sex appeal. The pressagents searched high & low for the kind of face that would look appealing in the glow of a blast furnace, picked Traude. Forthwith she became a "model" furnace worker, was billed...
...tired, asked her bosses to cut out the publicity and just let her quietly attend to her steel, they accused her of deviationism and Western sympathy. Two weeks ago, pretending to be a pilgrim to Berlin's Church Day (TIME, July 23), she skipped to the Western zone, went into hiding. Last week Traude asked Western authorities in Berlin for asylum. Explained the ex-labor heroine: "I just got sick and tired of the whole thing...
...early days, there was a faculty of 70 and a student body of 2,200. Today there are 240 teachers and 5,500 students, nearly half of whom have sneaked through the "little iron curtain" of the Soviet zone. They have sacrificed family ties and risked retaliation in their gamble for a free education. And the odds were against them from the start. As many as 55,000 refugees and West Germans apply for admission each semester. The university can take only...
...mile-deep buffer zone between the opposing forces, roughly along the present U.N.-held line, requiring the Communists to move back; ¶ An international commission with full power of inspection in North Korea; ¶No further shipments of war material or "volunteers" to Korea...
...politics simply would not stay out of sight. Pilgrims from the East Zone, plodding in faded clothes and ersatz shoes, gaped at the evidences of prosperity in West Berlin...