Word: barriers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...people can look at Berlin's ugly Wall without wanting to tear it down. Last week someone finally tried. At four isolated spots, mysterious explosions blew gaping holes through the barrier, but East German Volkspolizei quickly sealed each one off before any East Berliners could flee to freedom. The Reds blamed the West for the blasts; Western observers, however, said the explosions seemed to come from the east side of the Wall, hinted at an organized anti-Communist resistance ring...
...Kurt Weillish tune, exploit the pathos of divided Berlin that the Voice of America has refused to play it, and West German record firms are "apprehensive" about releasing it. Hollywood Songwriter Wayne Shanklin maintains that the record was inspired by a news picture of Bobby Kennedy looking at the barrier. ''The Wall offends the dignity of the human being," he straightfaces. "I want to shape the world a little. I can't fight with a gun, so I have to use the only weapons at my command...
high and 20 ft. wide. But unlike Walter Ulbricht's hated Berlin Wall, the new barrier was not built by the Communists; it was erected by the British last week to keep hungry refugees from the Red Chinese mainland out of the dangerously overcrowded Crown colony of Hong Kong...
...might be of importance to antisubmarine warfare. With a string of 15 spar buoys-aluminum tubes weighted at one end so they floated upright with 12 ft. of their length underwater-they blocked the mouth of a Lower California lagoon. The buoys were set soft. apart, making a loose barrier across the channel; on the bottom near by, the scientists spotted two underwater microphones. Their hazard to navigation in place, the scientists retired to their research boat to wait for porpoises to swim through the channel...
Late one afternoon a crewman sighted five Turslops gilli (Pacific bottle-nosed porpoises) 500 yds. away. They moved slowly up the channel, making clicks that were clearly heard through the microphones. Apparently the porpoises located the barrier and did not like it. While still 400 yds. away from it, they moved over into shallow water and gathered in a tight little school. Then one of them separated from the group and cruised along the buoys. When the scout returned, a burst of whistling came through the microphones. Then another porpoise swam out to examine the barrier and returned...