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Thursday. Feb. 22, 1962 University Daily Kansan
Kennedy Reassures Berliners
BERLIN — (UPI) — Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy assured West Berliners of continued American support today at a city hall rally which the communists tried to break up by shooting rockets with balloons over the wall that divided this red-surrounded city.
Kennedy and his wife, Ethel, arrived here from Rome aboard a U.S. Air Force constellation for a two-day stay on their current world tour.
Loud boos from the crowd greeted the red flags. And Kennedy took note of them by saying, "The Communists sent out balloons but they will not let their people out."
COMMUNISTS TRIED to disrupt this rally with their rocketed balloons, which exploded in the air to send forth red flags.
"West Berlin, although it lies on the edge of a totalitarian system, will not be attacked," Kennedy said in a speech from the city hall steps, "because an attack on Berlin will be the same as an attack on New York. Chicago, London or Paris.
Despite a light snowstorm, they received a triumphant welcome. Thousands greeted them at the airport, other thousands lined the route through the city to city hall, and an estimated 110,000 gathered in the city hall plaza to hear Kennedy speak.
"You are our brothers and we will stand by you."
THEN THE ATTORNEY GENERAL read a message to the city from President Kennedy. The message promised that Americans, Berliners and other peoples "shall sustain both freedom and peace in the years ahead."
After Kennedy's speech, the crowd called on Mrs. Kennedy to speak. She said "thank you" in German. Then she added in English, "God bless you."
The crowd then called on Gen. Lucius Clay, President Kennedy's personal representative here, to speak.
"I am proud as all Berliners are
to welcome the Kennedys here today," he said.
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THE HUGE THRONG jammed the city hall square to such an extent that they could not see the Kennedys. They shouted time and again, "Get on the balcony! Get on the balcony!"
In response, the Kennedys and West Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt left the rostrum in front and mounted to the city hall balcony to deafening cheers.
Kennedy then went into the city hall to sign the city's guest book and attend a municipal reception.
Before he arrived at city hall, Kennedy made a brief speech at the airfield in which he said he was carrying the President's personal greetings to the city and said the Americans had admiration and affection for Berliners and respected their courage.
hall. Crowds of Berliners turned out to cheer the Kennedys and show through them what the city government called "our unbreakable friendship with the American people." Through this gesture, the West Berliners hoped to express their appreciation to the United States for its help in resisting communist pressures over the years.
KENNEDY AND HIS WIFE arrived in a light snowstorm to a triumphant welcome at Tempelhof airfield and along the way into the city
"We have a commitment here which we will keep," he said.
In a brief statement at the airfield, Kennedy spoke in both German and English. His opening remarks in his broken German were at times almost impossible to decipher. But the crowd appeared to appreciate his attempt to speak German.
His wife, Ethel, also said in German, "I am happy to be here."
HER REMARKS in German were much briefer than her husband's. But she spoke it more clearly and with a better accent. She could be understood.
Kennedy in his airfield statement disregarded a speech distributed in advance by the U.S. mission here.
Instead of using the prepared statement, he appeared to be speaking off the cuff.
They were greeted at the ramp of their plane by Gen. Lucius D. Clay, President Kennedy's personal representative here, and by West Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt.
DESPITE THE WEATHER, thousands of West Berliners gathered outside the airfield and along the motorcade route to city hall to cheer the President's brother.
Kennedy, Brandt and Maj. Gen.
Albert Watson II, American commandant in Berlin, reviewed a U.S.
Army honor guard and a separate honor guard from the West Berlin police.
Brandt said West Berlin loved freedom and was ready to accept negotiations for such talks respecting the city's right of selfdetermination and freedom.
Following a 19-gun salute for the Attorney General, Brandt made a brief airfield speech of welcome in which he said the visit would convince Kennedy that the West must remain unified.
The Kennedy will stay here until Saturday and then go on to Bonn.
Washington Goes Zany at Sale
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — An elderly men shivered outside a hardware store most of the night to buy a 22-cent power mower, then was so excited that he left without getting change for a $20 bill.
This was one of the many happenings today in one of the capital's raniest annual events.
IT WAS THE WASHINGTON'S birthday sales extravaganzas. Even astronaut John H. Glenn was forgotten momentarily as shopkeepers elbowed each other to get in on the bargains.
The man who bought the 22-cent power mower was one of hundreds of persons who stood in line, or slept in front of stores, all night to be the first in line when the doors opened.
A 14-year-old boy positioned himself at the door of an office furnishing store yesterday at midafternoon, with a couple of blankets and a heavy coat, and slept there all night. He got a typewriter for 22 cents this morning.
The suburban areas have joined in the annual Feb. 22 spree. At Arlington, Va., an auto agency placed a 1950 Pontiac on sale for $17.76. The lucky buyer was Robert H. Booth, Arlington.
blanket. He crawled into the seat of one of the cars and plugged in the blanket to a handy socket. He was identified as George Gregg of Greenbelt, Md.
Many merchants arriving to open their stores and found bargain-hungry people sleeping on cots, in sleeping bags and under blankets and coats outside the doors. The annual bargain hunt started in 1919 when a haberdasher unloaded some sun-faded shirts for 50 cents each.
At nearby Hyattsville, Md., 25 or more bargain hunters spent the night in sleeping bags or in a couple of cars that an auto agency opened up on its used car lot. They were after $22 specials.
ONE MAN SEEKING a $22 auto
there brought along an electric
Glass to Lecture
Dr. Bentley Glass, biologist and humanist from Johns Hopkins University, will discuss "Darwinism and Ethical Values" at the Humanities Lecture on Monday at 4 p.m. in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union.
Changes Are Made In Alumni Policy
A revision of the KU Alumni Association policy will make all KU faculty and retired faculty members who are KU alumni eligible for the University's highest honor for an alumnus, the Citation for Distinguished Service to Mankind.
Fred Ellsworth, executive secretary of the Alumni Association, said today that under the old policy only "those faculty members who had gone out in the world and done their service to mankind" were eligible for the citation.
The University has honored 139 alumni since the program was started in 1941.
The deadline for nominations has been moved from April 1 to Dec. 1. Any faculty member or alumnus can nominate a person for the honor.
Pringsheim to Talk On Spy Trade Case
Board members also announced that two faculty members will be appointed by the chancellor each year to the anonymous committee which selects candidates for the citation award.
The trade of Col. Rudolph Abel, Russian spy, for Francis Gary Powers, U-2 spy plane pilot, will be discussed at 4 p.m. Friday by Klaus Pringsheim, instructor of political science.
The discussion will be sponsored by the Current Events Forum in the Music Room at the Kansas Union. Free coffee will be served.
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