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...reunify Germany and hold democratic elections, made trouble in Berlin from the start, finally brought all road, barge and rail traffic to a halt in the summer of 1948. A remarkable, eleven-month Allied airlift broke the blockade-but strengthened Soviet determination to swallow Berlin, which had become a "bone in the Soviet throat." In 1958 Khrushchev demanded that the West remove its 11,000 troops, permit Berlin to become a "free city." (Moscow, of course, was to have a loud, obstructive voice in supervising the new neutrality.) But Ike warned that interference in Berlin could mean war, and Khrushchev...
With the third edition of London's Sunday Telegraph safely tucked into bed, its bone-weary parent and editor in chief climbed into his secondhand Morris station wagon at 1 a.m. and headed for his Buckinghamshire country estate. Behind the Hon. William Michael Berry, 50, second son of the first Viscount Camrose, stretched 20 weeks of late Saturday nights -and the special satisfaction of having succeeded when his competitors were smugly certain that he would fail. In less than five months, the Sunday Telegraph, London's first new Sunday paper in 42 years,* has clearly established its capacity...
...least 800,000 restaurant employees in the nation who collect tips amounting to about a billion dollars a year, and an additional million or so people in the other service trades whose tip income is beyond estimate. Restaurant owners continue to pare employees' pay to the bone; even at Manhattan's high-priced "21," waiters' salaries are about $42 a week, while perhaps two or three times that amount comes from tips...
...flight to Vienna, President John Kennedy made it clear to the U.S. that his meeting with Nikita Khrushchev was to be a size-up instead of a summit, a time for appraisal rather than for decisions. The President was dead right. When he flew back to Washington last week-bone-tired and pained by a back injury-Kennedy faced the same old and annoying cold war conflicts. Nothing seemed to have changed...
...Bone in the Throat. To the nation, Kennedy reported that there had been "no loss of tempers" during the talks. But in the stalemated discussions over Berlin, Khrushchev came perilously close to anger. The Soviet Premier explained that he intended to sign a peace treaty (perhaps by year's end) with East Germany; after that, the West would be forced to deal with the East Germans for access to Berlin and the right to station troops there. Kennedy coolly answered that the West was in Berlin legally and would use force to maintain its rights there "at any risk...