Word: gates
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...visitor to Berlin inevitably walks along the road to the Brandenburg gate, now lined with rolls of barbed wire and heavily guarded. The old Brandenburg gate stands in its grandeur as a reminder of the transience of power over this great city. The shock and revulsion of seeing its impaired beauty, half hidden by the wall, is tempered by the remembrance of the history it has witnessed. The chariot now astride the gate is the same one which was once borne triumphantly into Paris by Napoleon...
...cross-over point into the Eastern Sector of the city is several blocks from the Brandenburg gate. If one follows the wall (after it leaves the Brandenburg gate it becomes about nine feet high, and it is topped by Y-shaped metal bars covered with barbed wire) Check Point Charlie...
There will be a $1 general admission charge for the game, but Harvard and Radcliffe students will be admitted by presenting coupon number one at the gate...
...Francisco's Golden Gate Park, the Academy of Sciences has a larger-than-life rattlesnake jaw with fangs, which snaps shut at the push of a button, and an instant earthquake showing the heaving innards of the earth. Oregon's imaginative Museum of Science and Industry in Portland offers a "micro-zoo" that, by magnifying a drop of water 200 times, reveals the teeming life in it. "We want to make a simple scientific statement the student will understand," says Executive Director Loren McKinley. "We don't go in for pinball exhibits...
...Brooklyn Handicap at Aqueduct, Gun Bow galloped 1¼ miles in 1 min. 593/5 sec.-the fastest mile-and-a-quarter in the history of New York racing. He won by twelve lengths. In the $54,300 Whitney Stakes at Saratoga last month, Gun Bow was unruly in the gate, broke dead last. Charging after the field, he suddenly spotted a leaf on the track, set himself like a steeplechaser approaching a hedge, and jumped. Then he settled down to business. He looped the field on the clubhouse turn, and the applause had already started when he swept around...