Word: germane
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...watch every maneuver and countermaneuver. White House Correspondent Charles Mohr followed President Eisenhower in from Washington; London Bureau Chief Robert Manning was on hand when Prime Minister Harold Macmillan arrived; Moscow Bureau Chief Edmund Stevens came to concentrate on Khrushchev, Bonn Bureau Chief John Mecklin to watch the German side of the story. Paris Bureau Chief Frank White not only followed the French position but also coordinated the whole operation. From their well prepared positions, they were all set to report in depth to TIME'S editors in New York on the sudden explosion at the summit...
...vulnerability of Russia's defenses, he toughly asserted that Russia was five years ahead of the U.S. in missile and space research, had the power to destroy the U.S. or any other enemy. "He came for no small talk," glumly conceded a Macmillan aide. And West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, who, though excluded from the summit itself, had nervously flown to Paris to urge his allies to stand firm on Berlin, came away reporting that "Mr. Khrushchev seems to be in a bad mood...
...which Ike had reason to regard as characteristically Russian. In the days just after World War II, Ike recounts in his autobiography, Russia's Marshal Georgy Zhukov confided to him that the Soviets had discovered an unbeatable technique for clearing German minefields: just send a company of infantry through the mined area...
Sweltering Day. Some 500 streets are sealed off in police-guarded dead ends, often with two West German policemen on one side, six East German policemen on the other. Streetcars and buses come to abrupt stops, and only subways and elevated trains run unhampered throughout the city. If a boy in West Berlin wants to phone a girl in East Berlin, the call must be routed via Frankfurt (West Germany) and Leipzig-a distance of more than 500 miles to make a phone ring in the next block. There are no country weekends for West Berliners, since the countryside...
...Berlin, said Khrushchev to Hubert Humphrey, is "a bone in my throat.'' As an island of freedom and prosperity .(see box), West Berlin constitutes a damning and unsettling contrast to the drabness of life in East Germany-a fact attested to by the 2,500,000 East German refugees who have poured into West Berlin in the last decade. Khrushchev is under pressure from his East German puppets, who complain in effect: "We cannot control these people forever unless something is done to eliminate the escape hatch that Berlin provides...