Word: gated
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Marin City, nestled in a wooded hollow the size of Monaco, sounds like a developer's dream. Only 20 minutes from San Francisco across the Golden Gate Bridge, the community (pop. 1,600) is bestirred by cool coastal breezes and blessed with one of America's most entrancing views-the shimmering, misty Bay. Yet despite its setting, Marin City is as profoundly troubled a community as Watts or Harlem...
Harvard undergraduates must present ticket 34 of the athletics book at Gate 2 of Soldiers Field this afternoon in order to gain admission to the track meet and baseball game...
Other signs of revolt soon cropped up. Teen-age gangs hit the streets, dressed in sleazy imitations of Edwardian frock coats. The Teddy boys mixed it up in angry race riots with West Indians, who were crowded into rundown districts like Paddington and Netting Hill Gate. Next, boys and girls divided up into foppishly dressed Mods and leather-jacketed Rockers, took to Brighton and Margate on holiday weekends to have a bit of a rumble while their elders rocked with still greater shock over the seamy revelations of the Profumo affair. Suddenly, with Profumo, the veneer of the upper classes...
Harvard students will need ticket 34 of the coupon book for admission to Gate 2 of Soldiers Field this Saturday for the Brown track meet and the Navy baseball game. Guest tickets...
...dozen Viet Cong attacked the guard post of a U.S. officers' billet, the Hotel Victoria, in suburban Saigon. Machine-gunning down the guards, they set off a Claymore-type mine, then backed a Citroën delivery truck loaded with 500 Ibs. of plastique explosive up to the gate and blew the Victoria's ground-floor front wide open. Three Americans and three Vietnamese were killed, 113 Americans and twelve Vietnamese wounded. Only the week before, a barrier of drums filled with concrete had been removed from in front of the Victoria because, explained a U.S. spokesman...