Three months ago, an Austrian youth hid his East Berlin fiancee in the small luggage space behind the seats of an Austin Healey Sprite. Then he ducked his head and gunned the midget sports car (35½ in. high) underneath the last Communist barrier at Checkpoint Charlie with two inches to spare. Few believed that it could be done again, since presumably the Reds would now be suspicious of sports cars. Nevertheless, last week another enamored suitor with the same strategy in mind rented the same Sprite from the same West Berlin agency. Then Norbert Konrad, 26, an Argentine citizen...
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