Word: doors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hall. Two police helicopters patrolled the route. President Johnson, if he attends at all, will avoid this danger, zipping in and out by helicopter. As an added precaution, a dummy portico, modeled after the entrance to the White House, was erected in front of the amphitheatre's main door to block the aim of any rifleman. Even the airspace up to an altitude of 2,500 ft. above the convention site was banned to all traffic ex cept official planes and helicopters...
Czechoslovakia runs like a dagger from Europe into the Soviet Union and sits next door to East Germany, the shield of the Soviet bloc's de fense system. In a sense, Dubcek's growing unruliness-and the invasion of his country to bring it back in line-was a near-domestic issue for Moscow, not an international one. This was all the truer because, inside Russia, the youth and intellectuals-among others-seemed electrified by the spectacle of Czechoslovak reform...
...image distortions and drew pictures of huge, unattached eyeballs. He split faces in two to suggest the war between the conscious and the sub conscious long before the terms were commonly known. Baudelaire was the first to see that Grandville was more than a caricaturist. "When I open the door of Grandville's works," he wrote in 1857, "I feel a certain uneasiness, as though I were entering an apartment where disorder was systematically organized. There are some superficial spirits who are amused by Grandville; for my part, I find him terrifying...
Attractive Models. If Burt does not quite seem like the boy next door, look again. He is a member of a new and rapidly growing group of drug users that the Rev. Melvin L. Knight Jr. calls "Billy-the-Kid drug heroes." Knight, who is pastor of St. Peter's-by-the-Sea Presbyterian Church in Palos Verdes, observes: "These guys seem to be real straight arrows. They're intelligent, good-looking. Good at sports, popular around school. They have all the characteristics of the old-style campus hero. But they also take and perhaps push drugs: marijuana...
...their skulls, fortunetellers who gazed into their futures and rah-rah cheerleaders who simply looked attractive. There were also karate lessons, instructions on how to pack a suitcase and the sounds of 15 rock bands. The affair drew 12,000 young people, one of whom made off with the door prize of a live horse...