Word: checkpoint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...morning the night before the third bust and second police battle. We are walking down Broadway from Columbia's 116th Street --Checkpoint Charlie, where you pass in and out the campus through credentials check. Shouting and sounds of riot draw us around the corner of 110th St. A dozen students standing in front of a small white-pillared building are shouting up at a 15-story Columbia dormitory, Carmen Hall. About half hold beer cans. Student heads stick out from every third window in Carmen and yell back. I am told that those on the ground are Jocks from "Beta...
...trim, athletic-looking man, dressed entirely in grey, stepped from a West Berlin taxi near a checkpoint at Heinrich-Heine-Strasse. He beckoned to an East German border guard, exchanged a few words with him, and then hurried across the border into East Berlin. The man was not a defector or a spy. He was a high-ranking West German official who carried in his black briefcase an important letter from West German Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger to Premier Willi Stoph of East Germany...
...Bill Petty's Pussy Cat, a 23-ft., 550-h.p. Sportsman worth $20,000, was barely clear of the harbor when it caught fire and burned to the water line. Minutes later, Bill Lewis' 40-ft. Formula came apart and sank. Only 32 boats reached the initial checkpoint at Bimini; of these, twelve never reached Nassau...
...Spanish checkpoint on the border. Last week Spain dealt the colony the cruelest jab yet. At the border, Spanish police swung two heavy iron gates across the road and turned a key in a rusty padlock, halting all vehicular traffic and overland trade between Gibraltar and the mainland...
...Westerners is adding to the crush. They flow in to sample Yugoslavia's sylvan beaches and well-preserved medieval towns. Some 3,000,000 Western cars carrying tourists are expected this year. "I stamp passports in my sleep these days," says one Yugoslav border guard at a Trieste checkpoint. "One day last summer we had 45,000 people come through here...