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...West Berliners, this was evidence enough of the fate that waited for them if the Reds ever managed to take over the entire city. And the intention was clearly there. When West Berliners boycotted the East German-owned S-bahn (elevated railway), which runs partly through West Berlin, East German Railway Boss Otto Arndt hinted darkly of interruptions when supplies were shipped to West Berlin...
...bigger things. Now he was wearing a necktie and having Berlin's best tailors make his suits; he sat in the Reichstag itself as a Communist Deputy. He was grandly aware of his station. Once, when Ernst Thalmann, the new party leader boarded a train at a Berlin railway station and took his seat in a third-class railway coach, Ulbricht stiffly declined to join his colleague, choosing instead a seat in the plush first-class section. He was entitled to such preference as a member of the Reichstag...
...park is circumscribed by a narrow-gauge railway, crossed by a 350-yard "Astrolift," and subdivided topically into six sections: Spain, France, Mexico, Republic of Texas, the Confederacy, and the U.S., representing Texas history, its rise to freedom, and its eventual return to foreign domination. As in Anaheim and The Bronx, river boats are caught in rifle crossfire and nearly clobbered by beaver-felled trees, but Six Flags is no mere copy. Typically, the roofs of the train cars are titanic sombreros, a giant stuffed bull shaves past an overgrown matador, and landscapers have turned a Texas-sized swamp into...
...stop its refugees running out to the West. But they still keep coming. Last week People's Army patrols in camouflage uniforms stalked the spruce forests and potato fields in a twelve-mile circle around East Berlin in search of defectors; jackbooted People's Police and railway police combed all access roads, airports and railways leading to the city. But through them all the refugees poured across to the West at the rate of some 1,500 a day. West Berlin authorities estimate that an additional 1,000 daily are being turned back before they reach freedom...
When I boarded the train in Dresden for my return to Berlin, some 20 jack-booted railway police were busy checking everybody's passports and papers. Passports were checked six times between Dresden and Berlin...