Word: gated
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...armored personnel carriers were rushed to the Friedrichstrasse's "Checkpoint Charlie" as two U.S. Army officers in civilian clothes, driving a grey Opel sedan, were escorted by three Jeeps filled with armed infantrymen through seven blocks of Communist territory. British Centurion tanks moved up to the Brandenburg Gate in their sector of the city...
...setting of the Bowmans' ordeal was a middle-class neighborhood of raw houses that rise up from the Pacific Ocean south of the Golden Gate Bridge. In April 1960, the terror began. The windows were shot out of their living room with a BB gun, and next day the windshield of their car was smashed with a volley from a pellet gun. Between April 15 and July 30, the living room windows were shot out four times and the car's windows were blasted seven times. On July 18, white paint was poured over the car and caked...
...town, sat by his side while he died in a dismal padding ken, followed his coffin to Greyfriars kirkyard, plumped himself down on the old man's grave to spend the night. "No dogs allowed!" the sour old sexton (Donald Crisp) bellowed, and booted him out the gate. But that night and every night Bobby sneaked back in to sleep on his master's grave, soon became such an object of civic admiration in Edinburgh that the Lord High Commissioner awarded him the Freedom of the City, and the right perpetual to sleep on his master...
...step to the anthem, the leaders of East and West approach the Gate...
...Western team approaches the rope soberly, with Kennedy taking the position opposite Khrushchev. Now, from the cloud above the gate, the Heavenly Referee descends. It is Jawaharlal Nehru, wearing the official striped shirt of a football referee and the official hat of the Congress Party. In his left hand is an olive branch, in his right a speech; on his hat sits a white dove...