Word: checkpoints
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Leased from the manufacturer. Checkpoint Systems, for $2000 a year, the "book control system" is the first at Harvard. If the staff approves the experiment, the system may eventually check circulation for all of Baker Library...
EAST German guards, their tommy guns swinging jauntily at their hips, last week pulled a striped red and white barrier across the autobahn checkpoint at Helmstedt on the border between East and West Germany. Two hours later, after cars and trucks had piled up for nearly a mile, the East Germans reopened the road and the traffic flowed once more between West Berlin and West Germany. It was a chilling reminder of West Berlin's vulnerability and a portent of what may come...
More and more, the commandos operate as a state within a state. They occupy the Jordan River's East Bank and defy government requests that camouflage-uniformed fedayeen stay off the streets of Amman. When a Bedouin army unit tried to disarm a group of commandos at a checkpoint outside the capital last week, Fedayeen Leader Yasser Arafat rolled up two jeeploads of commandos and threatened to shoot his way through. The army backed down...
...divided into two groups: a majority, which maintains diplomatic relations with Peking and therefore has entree to the country; and others, like the Americans, who must gaze at China from the Hong Kong end of the Lo Wu Bridge. These three books offer views from both sides of the checkpoint...
...than pebbles. I calculate later that a bottle thrown from the tenth floor of Carmen's 15 floors is moving 60 miles an hour when it hits the street. We start a cautious retreat but stop when the Jocks pass us on their way two blocks north to the checkpoint (so they don't have to climb the gate). A bottle smashes at the sandaled feet of a Jock in a sweatshirt who is in the center of the group. He looks up and counts out windows on the facade of Carmen, deciding which room threw it, then heads...