Word: gated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...want to exaggerate, but I'd say we gawked at what he showed us as if we were a bunch of sheep seeing through a gate for the first time. When he showed us one of his rockets, we thought it looked like nothing but a huge cigar-shaped tube, and we didn't believe it could fly. Korolyov took us on a tour of a launching pad and tried to explain how the rocket worked. We were like peasants in a marketplace. We walked around and around the rocket, touching it, tapping...
...hills behind Bakersfield, Haggard has a $700,000 mansion surrounded by 180 acres of grassland and tan, windswept vistas. The property includes an electrified gate, a moat, a swimming pool and a barbecue pit of roughly bullring dimensions. Inside the house are enough walkie-talkies, mobile telephones, cameras, video-tape machines, tape recorders, amplifiers, speakers and other electronic gadgets to keep Haggard occupied for years. He is happiest, however, tinkering with his $50,000 model railroad: 250 freight cars, 35 locomotives and a scale replica of the Bakersfield terminal. Its main line is a kid's dream that runs...
Kentucky Derby officials would not be surprised if the Lone Ranger rode up this week to get Silver a special dispensation to race the three-year-olds in Saturday's Run for the Roses. Everyone else with a horse seems to want a slot in the starting gate this year. At last count there were about 35 horses headed for Churchill Downs-far more than the track can or cares to accommodate, particularly for the 100th running of the race...
...show has grossed more than $275,000 and is doing a sellout business at Manhattan's Village Gate. A cast album is in the works, along with road companies in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Houston and Toronto. This summer Pinnacle Books will publish a volume on the story of the production...
...less than one month, the Triple Crown will be up for grabs again. The nation's finest three-year-old thoroughbreds will be poised in the starting gate at Churchill Downs; their owners will be sweating; and thousands of fans will be screaming as the chase for Secretariat's crown gets underway with the Kentucky Derby...