Word: gated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fact, was Harvard Yard. The cops had been stationed in the Fire Station waiting for the call, and when it came, they moved right through the Yard and out onto Mass. Ave. Harvard Police Chief Robert Tonis later said that the police entered the Yard "through the fire gate by cutting a lock." They marched through the Yard to the Gate by Harvard Hall, where a University policeman unlocked the gate and let them out. Tonis said that the Cambridge Police "felt it was a necessary tactical movement to prevent injury to the men." The Police Department refused to make...
...Your article on Golden Gate leaps [Aug. 24] erroneously stated that New York City does not classify its suicides and that bridge jumpers are listed as "accidents." The reason for the existence of the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner here is precisely to investigate and prop erly classify all unnatural deaths. This includes more than 1,200 suicides annually -sleeping-pill overdose is the most common means of suicide; next most common is jumping from buildings (more than 300 a year); third is hanging...
After the cable car and the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco takes a particular civic pride in its unique sourdough bread. Its special qualities depend on a yeastlike "starter" used in the baking, and locals are fond of arguing that the city's cool, foggy climate gives it qualities that cannot be duplicated...
Making Suicide Easy. But why the Golden Gate Bridge? Because, says Seiden, the jump from that impressive span has considerable publicity value: "The newspapers keep a running box score on the number. It is a very dramatic way to die if a person doesn't want to end up in the classifieds." Adds Dr. Edwin S. Shneidman, former chief of the Center for Studies of Suicide Prevention at the National Institute of Mental Health: "One jumps from a place which has a reputation. It is the thing to do and the place...
Moreover, the bridge authorities make it easy for the jumper. Roving uniformed patrols peel an occasional eye for prospects. But, principally for aesthetic reasons, the kind of barrier that radically reduced leaps from Manhattan's Empire State Building, for instance, has never blighted the beauty of the Golden Gate. This horrifies Shneidman, who has prodded the Golden Gate Bridge Highway and Transportation District, the agency responsible, to withdraw its invitation to suicide. He rejects the board's argument that if it stops the bridge jumper, he will only go somewhere else to take his life...