(Gene Bane/Stars and Stripes)

East Berlin, June 1963: Two spectators, obviously concealing their unbounded enthusiasm, hold large cutout photos of East German leader Walter Ulbricht and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev as they await the arrival of the noted Communists’ motorcade.

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