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Makoko drowned Sunday at the Bronx Zoo. He lumbered outside to his six-foot moat early in the afternoon. While 1,000 New Yorkers watched, he fell...
...year-old Negro, had loosened a piece of slate on the floor under the bunk in his cell. Then he chipped patiently through ten inches of concrete, burrowed diagonally downward for ten feet and leveled off under the massive stone wall. He kept digging, tunneled on under a dry moat, then turned upward again. He had 26 feet to go to reach the surface...
...mention Hoover by name as he condemned any plan for "an impregnable defense, a China Wall, a Maginot Line, a Rock of Gibraltar, an Atlantic and Pacific moat . . . The whole world can be confident that the U.S. will not at a moment of supreme danger shed allies who are endangered...
...Protective Shield. "All of this was changed by our Pacific victory. Our strategic frontier then shifted to embrace the entire Pacific Ocean, which has become a vast moat to protect us as long as we hold it. We control it to the shores of Asia by a chain of islands, extending in an arc from the Aleutians to the Marianas, held by us and our free allies. From this island chain we can dominate with air power every Asiatic port from Vladivostok to Singapore, and prevent any hostile movement into the Pacific...
...score of U.S. planes swooped onto a Danish airfield to begin a needlepoint-fine search through the squalls and fog of the Baltic Sea. Danish and Swedish planes and boats pitched in to help. It was a nerve-racking business, for the narrow Baltic is virtually a moat lying between Russia's heavily armed northwestern seacoast and the Western world. Along the shores of captive Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, the U.S.S.R. has laid down heavy rocket installations and submarine pens, and has girdled them all with high-powered radar detectors and a constant patrol of fighter planes and submarines...