Word: gated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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HUGHES MONEY In closed session, the Senate Water gate Committee heard testimony from at least three employees of Superbillionaire Howard Hughes about $100,100 that he gave to Nixon Friend Bebe Rebozo in 1969 and 1970. Rebozo has said that the money had been intended for campaign purposes but was returned to Hughes this year. The Hughes associates' testimony was not disclosed. At one point, however, Hughes Attorney Chester Davis opened a tattered briefcase and dumped bundles of subpoenaed $100 bills, bound in rubber bands, onto the table in front of Chairman Sam Ervin...
...solution: At 1:45 a.m., 20 M-48 tanks move through the rioting city and encircle the Institute. At 2 a.m. the tanks point their guns at the students who are perched on the walls and on the iron gate singing Greece's National Anthem, "Hymn of Freedom," and yelling "The army is with us," "You are our brothers," "No blood...
...students line up behind the main gate. Later, a Dutch television crew that was on the scene reported that there were six rows of students sitting behind the iron gate...
...tanks rotates its turret, its gun turned away from the Institute to protect it from the impact. The tank charges from the full width of the empty street into the iron gate. The 40-ton steel machine destroys the gate, and the commandos and the policemen charge into the Institute...
...enables the hero to overcome terrors from which wiser men would flee. In Hans My Hedgehog, ugliness is a curse to be broken by magic. In Pitcher's Feathered Bird and Brother Gaily, cleverness and sharp practice can outwit the Devil, even the keeper of heaven's gate. Above all, the tales are sweaty with human nature. Time and again, the message seems to be: "Don't tinker with the order of things." Yet this message is repeatedly mocked by the irrepressible truth that man is an incurable tinkerer...