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...definitions based on recent TIME cover stories. She was intrigued by the idea, soon produced a puzzle constructed mainly from information which she found in the cover stories on Democratic Minority Leader Lyndon Johnson, Planemaker James Howard ("Dutch") Kindelberger, George Washington and East Germany's Communist Boss Walter Ulbricht. Here it is, and I hope you have as much fun solving it as I did. (For answers, see next week's TIME...
...time being at least, Walter Ulbricht still reigned in Moscow's name. From meeting hall to city square to factory, he toured his simmering satrapy, to soothe grim-faced workers with promises and lash frightened party workers with threats. The Vopos clustered about him, and the Soviet army lay only a soft shout away. He had not changed. He was still the coffinmaker...
Organizer Ulbricht, it seemed, had saddled the cow. The more Moscow milked it, the more he tightened the cinch belts. There was a Two Year Plan, then a Five Year Plan. Steel production went up 500,000 tons above the prewar average for Eastern Junker Germany (to about 1,700,000 tons a year). Electric power output climbed 50% in two years. New hard-coal fields were opened, chemicals output went UP 30% and East Germany seemed on the way to becoming the most important industrial area in Europe after the Ruhr...
...hours, Walter Ulbricht's great edifice seemed about to tumble about his ears. His vaunted party, and his heavy-booted Vopos, could not put down the rebellion; the Soviet army had to do it for him. The revolters had cried for many things, but above all they cried for the downfall of Walter Ulbricht: "Down with Spitzbart [pointed beard]!" "Down with the Ulbricht regime!" In the streets of East Berlin, he was burned in effigy...
...coldly, as tenaciously as always, Walter Ulbricht held on. It was all the work of Western provocateurs, said his propaganda machines-and the Soviet firing squads shot a few workers to prove it. The Reds also, by their own official admission, jailed 50,000 people. But in a slip of the tongue, Ulbricht contradicted himself on Western responsibility for the riots. "It is only a family quarrel," said he, "of no concern to the West...