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After being held overnight in Slubice, Field's wife was permitted to continue her journey, but Field himself was placed on an eastbound train and subsequently interrogated and imprisoned...
...along the Berlin Wall, Christmas music was playing. Communist border guards on their best behavior helped old women and toddling children onto Eastbound streetcars, and down the empty, echoing length of Karl Marx Alice even the weathered posters of Walter Ulbricht seemed to be smiling. Then, just before dark on Christmas Day, two 18-year-old East Germans made a break for the Wall. As the boys scrambled over the barbed wire, searchlights blazed and flares burst. A pizzicato of burp guns played brief counterpoint to Bing Crosby's White Christmas. Lungs shredded by Vopo bullets, Electrician...
...last week. At roughly the same time, a 61-troop eastbound convoy and a 73-troop westbound convoy rolled into the autobahn's Marienborn checkpoint. Russian guards not only stopped both convoys but ordered that all the U.S. personnel get out and line up for head counts. Then came one of the oddest impasses of the cold...
Finally, after 15 hours, with the same abruptness and with as little apparent reason as they had to stop them in the first place, the Soviets let the convoys go. The westbound convoy went unhindered, to its destination in West Germany. But the eastbound convoy got only 90 miles along the pike toward West Berlin when it was halted by tommy gun-toting Russian soldiers headed by a high-ranking Soviet officer. Again came the Communist command: everybody out for a head count. And again the U.S. convoy commander refused...
...line executives concede that the rate schedule is "unscientific." But American President Lines Chief George Killion argues that the differentials on the Pacific are justified, because almost six times more cargo goes westward than eastward, and as a result there is hot competition between carriers for the small-scale eastbound Pacific freight. To Senator Douglas, this argument only proves that the conferences are cartels that hike their rates when effective competition is absent...