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...Olympio found a parked Plymouth sedan belonging to the embassy, and crawled in. There, in the early morning sunlight, he was spotted huddled beneath the steering wheel by one of the mutineers. Crying "All right, you have me!", Olympio surrendered and, prodded by rifle butts, was hustled down the driveway, past a mango tree and through the green gate. There he balked. Sergeant Etienne Eyadema, commander of the rebel detachment, later declared: "He could not stay there. There would have been demonstrations. He would not move. I shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Togo: Death at the Gate | 1/25/1963 | See Source »

Marcie: So awright, Sophie, 10-4; I'm in the driveway of the house; I'll go 10-7-now. and go in the house and give you a land line [telephone call...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hobbies: What Citizens Have Wrought | 1/11/1963 | See Source »

...flash a floodlight on the garden. Everybody always says, 'Oh, no!' and from that moment I know I've got a convert, and the husband knows he's going to have to spend some money. Floodlights are for finding your automobile in the driveway or for carrying the garbage out to the trash can. But not for gardens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Garden: Moonlight Man | 11/16/1962 | See Source »

...number of "fancy and expensive" innovations were also proposed by Abramovitz, reported Adele Smith '63, president of RGA, such as rebuilding the driveway (presently located between Bertram and Eliot) and digging underground passages...

Author: By Faye Levine, | Title: Cliffe Officials Consider Plans to Remodel Quad | 11/14/1962 | See Source »

...reached by gentle ramps instead of stairs), a dining room, a petit salon, an office and a kitchen in addition to the main reception room on the main floor, is really an island in the midst of a gushing stream. Icy water from melted mountain snow burbles beside the driveway, continues through the house in blue and gold glazed tile channels, tumbling over alabaster barriers and out into the garden. The chilled water is also used to air-condition the house in summer, must be heated before reaching the swimming pool, where on Wednesdays the Shah and Queen Farah Diba...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Fatemeh's Fancy | 9/14/1962 | See Source »

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