Word: gated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plot, said Peking, was hatched almost a year ago. On Oct. 1, Red China's National Day, when Mao and all other Red bigwigs would be standing on a reviewing stand before Peking's Heavenly Peace Gate, the plotters had intended to blow them all to kingdom come with a trench mortar. Eight men were accused and quickly convicted: Antonio Riva, wealthy, high-living Italian trader who once boasted he could do business under any kind of Chinese regime, and Ruichi Yamaguchi, a scholarly Japanese bookseller-death; Italian Bishop Tarcisio Martina, 64, longtime head of the Roman Catholic...
Died. Tu Yueh-sen, 64, onetime fruit vendor who became the underworld boss of Shanghai, controlled the city's waterfront trade unions, ricksha boys and the Red Gate and Blue Societies (protection racket); after long illness; in Hong Kong. In 1927, when Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek split with the Communists, Tu broke up the powerful Communist-bossed General Labor Union, managed to keep Shanghai from falling to the Reds. In return, Chiang appointed him head of the Anti-Opium League, a position which gave him legal control of the country's thriving drug trade, in which he already...
...billed as the "Out of This World Series." After Captains Bob Hope and Gary Cooper met at home plate, grabbed a bat and mugged for the cameras, the shenanigans got under way. Final score: unknown-no one bothered to tot it up. But a total of $20,000 in gate receipts was turned over to charity...
...musical picture themes, interrupted by a well-known "promenade" motif, illustrate "The Great Gate of Kiev," "A Peasant's Wagon," and the "Tuileries Gardens," among others...
...first Tanglewood trip leaves by bus from Thayer Gate at 3 p.m. tomorrow. The Saturday evening concert, with Charles Munch conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra, will include Handel's Water Music Suite, Ravel's Daphnis and Chloe, Saint-Saens' Symphony No. 3, and Bartok's Music for Strings and Percussion...