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...walls and a cookie-cutter roof juts out from a circular pedestal, and might be overlooking the swimming pool and the 18th hole instead of the corner of Century Boulevard and Vicksburg Avenue. But by some medieval quirk, Welton Becket & Associates has designed the entrances as bridges over a moat...
Moments after midnight, 300 Viet Cong guerrillas crept through sugarcane fields toward a camp of U.S. and South Vietnamese Special Forces at Hiephoa, barely 20 miles west of Saigon. Ducking under watchtowers bristling with machine guns and floodlights, the Reds knifed a sentry, forded a three-foot-deep moat, snipped three barbed-wire fences, and slipped into the compound-evidently in collusion with a spy inside, who unlocked the gate. Then, while guerrillas outside opened up with a mortar barrage, the infiltrators attacked to the blast of a bugle...
...Beatlemania," as Britons call the new madness, was striking everywhere, and last week the Queen Mother herself confronted the four young Liverpudlians responsible. There on the stage of London's Prince of Wales Theater stood a wild rhythm-and-blues quartet called the Beatles, and there across the moat of Establishment faces sat the Queen Mother. "Those in the cheaper seats, clap," cried the Beatles' leader. "The rest of you rattle your jewelry." Then the Beatles broke into From Me to You, and the Queen Mother beamed...
Several minority interests were represented, as individuals lobbied for elevators, taller and fewer buildings, a moat or pond. "Preserve the Gingko Tree!" cried one girl. The tree, at the corner of Walker and Shepherd Streets, is in no danger. "Don't destroy the volleyball court!" she also pleaded. The court is doomed...
...have information that the castle may really be a prison," Vellucci stated. He pointed to the moat which will surround the seven-story, window-scarce monolith, as evidence of secret designs by the Education School. "They may have crocodiles swimming around in there," Vellucci declared...