THE sudden sealing off of the East Berlin border, and the decision of TIME'S editors in New York to put East Germany's Ulbricht on the cover, descended in one-two fashion on TIME'S Bonn bureau. But if surprised, Correspondents Robert Ball and William Rademaekers were not unprepared. They have been living with the story a long time.
As he set about interviewing West German and American sources on Ulbricht's past and present. Correspondent Ball could draw on eleven years of entries in his notebooks since he did his first story on Ulbricht and the East German Communists. That was back in June...
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