Word: gated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some of the calls were from people who misrepresented their seat locations, or tried to feign ignorance of gate numbers and the like to unload lousy tickets on him. "They assumed I didn't know anything," he says...
Ford's repeated greetings, taped earlier at a factory gate by NBC Radio Newsman David Rush, brought tears of laughter to his weary listeners. As the campaign nears its close, strain is beginning to show. Deprived of sleep and laundry service, herded around by Secret Service agents and local police, forced to hear the same basic speech over and over, the boys and girls* on the bus are responding with mirth and mischief...
...students who recognized this bizarre figure as "Brother Blue" immediately demanded a story. Brother Blue began his version of "Little Blue Riding Hood," and had not finished relating the tale when the bus approached the Radcliffe gate. Students on the bus complained, and the driver resolved the problem by taking the bus around the Quad twice. After warning the students to respect their parents, Blue danced off the bus, accompanied by enthusiastic applause...
...leaders set an extremely quick pace throughout the race. Harvard's Stein Rafto came out of the gate and blew the race wide open, tearing past the one-mile mark at 4:26. Three-quarters of a mile later, Campbell and Fitzsimmons took over, running the two-mile at 9:13, and trading the lead for the next 2.5 miles...
That would suit him fine since he lives baronially, if quietly, in a huge hilltop estate in Beverly Hills, recently purchased from a member of the Doheny family. He has the mandatory electric gate and swimming pool, and a dining room table that could very nearly accommodate the Kong cast. But money is not as much fun to him as the game in which it can be made or lost. Says an associate: "Dino is never happier than in a King Kong situation, where the stakes are enormous, where he can win or lose everything...