Word: gated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Humphrey and the rest of his party were ready, Ike climbed aboard a shiny black, red-wheeled "Thomasville wagon,"* drawn by two white mules. Secret Service Man James Rowley sat on the tail gate and the others-Secret Service agents, beaters, Humphrey and guests -mounted horses. At dusk, after three hours of shooting in the marshlands, Ike returned with nine quail-three short of a day's legal limit...
...this consistency, the schools automatically exclude individual participation in certain worthy contests like the East-West Shrine charity game, or strictly amateur all-star soccer or lacrosse matches. This competition is far removed from the "big business" bowl games and the over-emphasis of athletics that accompanies fat gate receipts...
With a scant 45 invitations for outsiders alloted each fraternity, the non-Dartmouth turnout was rather poor. But the natives are extremely cordial both to guests and occasional gate-crashers. There are liquor, women, and a slap on the back for anyone looking at all disposed to be friendly, and the Dartmouths are liberal hosts...
From the standpoint of the televiewer, pay-as-you-see promises great benefits: better shows and no commercials. Broadway shows and top sporting events now kept off the air because of the promoters' fear of falling gate receipts would be telecast. First-run movies would supplement the antiques now filling the screens; opera and ballet, which seldom come into the living room, could be telecast. Pay-as-you-see could put the Metropolitan Opera on a solid financial basis. And pay-as-you-see, instead of keeping audiences away from such events, might stimulate as much interest in them...
...roads, unreliable engines and collapsing tires. Even in recent years, sleet, ice and blinding fog have brought hazard and death to the competitors. But last week, blessed by the balmiest weather in Rally history, a record percentage of finishers-331 of 363 starters-whizzed through the flag-draped finish gate on Monte Carlo's Quai Albert Premier. The only American entrant, Frederick Cramer, 48, a history professor from Mount Holyoke College, summed up this year's mild competition as "an agreeable hobby for middle-aged persons...