Word: gated
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Finally, just before 8 a.m., Pfc. Paul Healey, 20, led a counterattack through the front gate, personally killing five V.C. with grenades and his M-16 rifle. Minutes later, two paratroop platoons from the 101st Airborne Division at nearby Bien Hoa landed on the embassy's rooftop helipad. Working their way down, they met no resistance. Though V.C. prisoners are usually turned over to the Saigon government, this time the troopers had orders to kill every V.C. in sight, lest any had seen secret codes or plans in the embassy...
When United Flight 91 nonstop from Boston touched down at Los Angeles International Airport, Copilot Milton Ervine ("Erv") Johnson Jr. noticed waiting photographers. Figuring that they were there to film the DC-8 taxiing to the terminal gate, Johnson impishly mugged it up at the cockpit window for the grinding cameras. Then the cabin door swung open and a United Airlines public relations girl leading a covey of newsmen stepped in. "Commander Milton Johnson?" she asked. "I think that...
...unbeaten, top-ranked U.C.L.A. No sweat for the judge. He reached clear over to Los Angeles to borrow a portable floor, spent $10,000 trucking it to Texas and setting it up. Then he went out and sold all 48,500 seats plus standing room for $200,000-largest gate in basketball history...
...thing, the arena has gone all out for color coding. On their arrival for the opening hockey game between the Kings and the Philadelphia Flyers, fans holding yellow tickets, for example, found that they parked their cars in a yellow-designated lot. They entered the arena at a yellow gate and passed through a yellow tunnel to the yellow section, where girls wearing yellow mini-togas showed them to their seats-yellow, of course...
There is a chance that these four may open the invitational season at the Golden Gate Relays in San Francisco next month. They will be hard pressed to hold their places thereafter, however, as sophomores, led by potential star Keith Colburn, start to challenge. The present seniors were tightly united early in their Harvard career, and got used to considering themselves "up-and-coming." Now they find themselves "old men," and are surprised and somewhat humbled by the existence of a sophomore group whose times compare very favorably...