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...been working on Iron Curtain affairs since 1955 and was in Hungary during the 1956 revolt, dipped into East Berlin twelve times last week-crossing the border at dawn, dusk and midnight-walking, driving, and once taking a ghostly ride through East Berlin's heavily guarded U-bahn (subway) stations. He also scouted the length of the East-West Berlin border from Teltow Canal in the south to Tegeler Forst in the north, scrambling over rubble and through potato patches, often attracting the nervous attention of the armed border guards. At week's end, Washington Correspondent Loye Miller...
Rooms with a View. But most were frustrated by Ulbricht's meticulous Communist planning. Even as the open street crossings were being barricaded, other squads raced to lock the gates of the S-bahn (elevated) and of the ten major U-bahn (subway) stations that serviced trains traveling into West Berlin. Guards were posted in the pitch-dark U-bahn tunnels to halt the more imaginative sneakers. After a helmeted Vopo guard at the new barrier leaped across the barbed wire and escaped to the West, East German officers began keeping their enlisted men several yards from the wire...
...sled back and forth along the ice to settle its runners into a groove. "Ein, swei, drei," they counted. Then the tail-end brakemen gave a great heave and grunted, "Auf geht's!" Pushing like mad, the bobbers galloped down the slick chute of the St. Moritz Bob-Bahn shouting, "Hoch, hoch, hoch!" Just before their sled hit the first curve they tumbled into their seats-off and running in the World Four-Man Bobsledding Championship...
Miss Vosgerschian will perform Bach's Concerto in A major for harpsichord and strings. Also on the program is Bach's cantata Berelt die Wege, Bereitet die Bahn...
...Europe, lodging, lifts, transportation and equipment are much cheaper. At Switzerland's Davos, ski lifts fan out into ten square miles of wide-open slopes. The Parsenn-Bahn offers a choice of skiing down to Jenaz, 18 miles away, or to the nearer villages of Saas, Serneus, Klosters or Wolfgang, each serviced by a whistle-stop railroad that hauls the skier right back to Davos. At Zermatt, in the shadow of the Matterhorn, a good skier can zip down to Italy for a spaghetti lunch and be back in Switzerland for dinner...