Word: gate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hand, clapping him on the back. "You're wonderful!" women cry. Men shout, "Good luck!" He is besieged for autographs. Reagan is not a compulsive crowd plunger, like Nelson Rockefeller, or an irrepressible hand grabber, like Lyndon Johnson. By nature he is almost reticent. At a factory gate, he will often wait with hands limp at his sides, nodding a .bit awkwardly at passers-by until someone recognizes him. Then, on center stage, Reagan's face lights up, a joke comes to his lips and he launches smoothly into a spontaneous-sounding stump speech on his plans...
...days, workmen had been hustling to decorate Peking's Gate of Heavenly Peace, scene of Red China's monster rallies. Up around the square went pictures of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin. On the facade of the gate towers went huge pictures of sunflowers bending to the sun, symbolic of the world's people being drawn to Chairman Mao Tse-tung. And on the north wall, dwarfing all the other portraits, was a tinted image of the sun god himself...
...George Talk. Griffin, of course, is still a long way from winning. Williams, 55, who is one of the most effusive, effective factory-gate-and-street-corner glad-handers in memory, has been out of commission since mid-August, when he underwent a painful operation for kidney stones; he has been even more pained by his doctor's continuing insistence that he spend most of each day in bed. All the same, Williams says he is not worried about last week's poll: "The only thing that counts is the poll on Nov. 8. When the people compare...
What makes a good country restaurant worth the trip? Basically, skillfully prepared food, an excellent selection of wines and attentive service-plus one magic ingredient: setting. Whether the restaurant is placed among dark spruce and silver birch beside a mountain stream in Vermont (Manchester's Toll Gate Lodge) or beneath giant pecans and live oaks in Texas (Salado's Stagecoach Inn), it offers a view and a personality that its city cousins can never match...
Though he ranks fifth behind Arnold Palmer, Billy Casper, Jack Nicklaus and Julius Boros among pro golf's alltime top-money winners, San Diego's Gene Littler, 36, is so inconspicuous that he has been refused entry at the players' gate. He frankly prefers it that way. "I just like to go out and play my game and be left alone," he says. Littler's game is called Finish in the Money, But Don't Be Greedy. His lifetime earnings total $434,324, most of which has come from finishing second (23 times) or third...