Word: gated
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...swarming from the train, you pass sub shops and a nightclub on your way to the grandstand. Behind you is an amusement park where thrill seekers of a tamer sort ride up and down wooden hills. You wade through a parking lot jammed with Pontiacs and Caddies. At the gate you pay your 50 cents and mumble...
...most frolicsome funeral in memory. Through San Francisco's Golden Gate Park wended a legion of hippies, the lads bedizened with beads and scrapes, the lasses with furs and long velvet dresses. Then came the casket, a 15-ft. grey box labeled "Summer of Love," and behind it an equally outsized stretcher on which reclined a hirsute "corpse," clutching a zinnia to its breast-symbol of the death of the flower children. Television cameras ogled the scene as the mourners gathered around the casket and filled it with charms, peacock feathers, orange peels, bread (both edible and negotiable), flags...
...their formless grey tu nics, trousers and caps and led by Mao Tse-tung himself. The grouping showed no real change in the hierarchy, but last week's celebration of China's Na tional Day was still unusual. Only 500,-000 gathered at Peking's Gate of Heavenly Peace, compared with last year's 1,500,000. The parade lasted only two hours instead of the previous four. In place of last year's 20-ft. colossus, there was a new statue of Mao that was merely larger than life...
Once out of the gate, says Jockey Willie Shoemaker, Damascus has all the heart anybody could want, is at his best running off the pace, then comes on strong in the stretch. The one problem is to prevent him from loafing a bit once he gets out in front. "You have to keep after Damascus, and when you do, no horse can beat him." says Shoemaker. "This colt is as good as any I've ever ridden...
...Instead, dismissing his followers, he settled his robes for an indefinite protest vigil underneath a tree in front of the palace. Each night followers brought fresh changes of robes and food, tea, milk, vitamins, dextrose mixed with water and aspirin. The palace guards permitted Tri Quang to use their gate toilet, and when the monsoon came, South Vietnamese Police Chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan came out and invited Tri Quang inside, holding an umbrella...