Word: gated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Amid the morning mists and hillocks of San Francisco, where men once shouted "Gold!", there gathered last week a distinguished concourse of 38 foreign minis ters and 260 delegates representing 60 of the 81 countries on earth. They were met by the Golden Gate to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the founding of the U.N. ; four of them - Russia's Vyacheslav Molotov, Great Britain's Harold Macmillan. France's Antoine Pinay and the U.S.'s John Foster Dulles - expected to fix up the housekeeping and feel out the climate for the Parley at the Summit...
Along Paris' grim Rue Hippolyte Maindron stands a squat concrete building half hidden by a rickety gate. A casual passerby might think it a garage, but one peek through the window would probably give him a jolting surprise. The small. 12-by-15-ft. room is the private world of one of the world's most original sculptors: wiry, bushy-haired Alberto Giacometti. 53. In 28 years, a good deal of Giacometti has rubbed off onto the floors and walls of his bare, grey studio. The workbench is encrusted with old paint drippings and scabs of plaster. Cigarette...
...noting some recent remarks of mine about the rewards of reading [May 23], you seem to have opened a veritable sluice gate of correspondence . . . Many of those who wrote appear to think that I was denouncing television . . . This would put me in the unhappy position of the man who was allergic to his own liver . . . There are many programs on television today from which any man can draw profit and delight . . . My plea was for selective viewing and for that sort of balanced intellectual diet that would not forget the essential proteins and vitamins that can be found...
...Gate of Hell (Independent...
...Imam, a descendent of Mohammed's son-in-law AH, who will inaugurate a new and glorious era in history after a period of wars, eclipses and catastrophes. But the Bahais believe that the Imam already has come-heralded by one Mirza Ali Mohammed, who proclaimed himself Bab (Gate) and stirred up enough theological ruction to get himself executed by the government in 1850. He was followed by Mirza Hussein Ali, a wealthy cabinet minister's son, who took the name Baha'u'llah, and in 1863 proclaimed himself "Him Whom God Shall Manifest," calling upon...