Word: gated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...caretaker peers through the peephole in the front gate of the walled villa overlooking Cannes, disappears, then returns to admit the visitor. A dark-haired, handsome woman in blue pants emerges from the big square house and says: "Picasso will be down in a moment." She is Jacqueline Roque. a 30-year-old divorcee who is Picasso's latest companion, and she speaks with the air of one announcing the approach of an emperor...
...bamboo, one lamp and one small table, books of poems and volumes of classics-with them I pass the rest of my years. My friends are elderly farmers, my conversations are with the mountains, my life is devoted to gardening. News of worldly affairs does not enter my gate. Should it intrude, the breeze in the pines would waft it away...
...adopted a unique up-and-down motion. The bells in St. Patrick's steeple on Mission Street rang all by themselves; at the Top of the Mark, some 15 early customers for cocktails noticed more sway than usual, ordered another drink. A painter high on the Golden Gate Bridge clung tight while the main deck seemed to leap, and the 36½-in. cable "snapped back and forth like a clothesline." Two motorists on Highway I south of town scrambled out of their cars, in time to get away from the 400-yd. stretch of roadway that, already loose...
Simple & Suicidal. The solution tried last week was brutally simple-and almost sure suicide. About 3:25 p.m., a red truck sputtered to a stop in front of the Presidential Palace. The driver inspected the engine, walked to the tail gate. "Now," he shouted, and 21 university students and political opponents of Batista burst out, firing rifles and machine guns. They were soon in the palace door and up the staircases on either side to the second floor and Batista's office. One of them flung a hand grenade at the door...
...control over the career of an athlete, who is no less an article of barter than a bale of hay. The owners' case for the reserve clause is that it prevents wealthy owners from monopolizing all the best talent and thereby ruining the game as well as the gate. In 1922, and again in 1953, the Supreme Court, to the delight of the owners, ruled that baseball is a sport, not a business, and hence does not come under the federal antitrust laws. Last week the Supreme Court turned about...