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During the Russian blockade of Berlin, some Russians were themselves blockaded in the U.S. sector of the city. They worked in the massive grey Reichsbahn-Direktion, headquarters of the Soviet-controlled railroad spiderweb radiating from Berlin. After the blockade, in last summer's railroad strike, 200 West Berliners charged into the building, tore down pictures of Stalin. That was enough for the Russians: they moved their railroad officials into the Soviet sector, leaving only an automatic rail-telephone switchboard and a small school for railroaders in the Direktion; 600 offices stood empty...
...Chaillot sector of Paris there lives a woman who calls herself the Countess Aurelia, but who is known to her many friends as "the madwoman." This is not necessarily derogatory. It is difficult to tell how old the Countess might be because she dresses in the style of the 1880's and is rather out of touch with the times--a fear she manages by living in a dream-world and reading every morning a 1903 newspaper...
...Helping Hand. For the third sector of Asia-the uneasy non-Communist nations of Southeast Asia, India and Pakistan-Acheson had cold words and measured promises: "The direct responsibility lies with the peoples concerned . . . You cannot sit around in Washington or London or Paris or The Hague and determine what the policies are going to be in those areas." The U.S. would offer aid-generally along the lines of the careful yardstick set down recently by State's Counselor George Kennan...
...waterfront sector of St. Pauli, dozens of nightclubs stretch along a half-mile of neon lights on the Reeperbahn. Seamen of all nations dance with heavily rouged "animation ladies," and pay Stork Club prices for flaccid German champagne. The rule at the Bal Paradox is that the women ask the men to dance. In Hamburg's railroad station is the Treffpunkt agency: for 25 marks ($5.95) a man can leaf through a photo album, select a girl, arrange a date. Says proud Treffpunkt Manager Max Pollack: "All my girls are high-class, and you'd be surprised...
...countries. Nothing comparable had happened since man's external parasites (carnivorous animals) were licked back in the Stone Age. As a result, the average civilized man lives to a good old age instead of dying young. The effects of this deep biological change are being felt in every sector of modern society...