Word: gated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Golden Gate Bridge was opened in 1937 after years of haggling with San Francisco Bay ferryboat owners and skeptics who said that it could not be done. At first, traffic was so light that some toll collectors on the graveyard shift set garbage-can lids in the approach lanes to warn themselves of oncoming vehicles. But business soon picked up, and now runs to 33 million vehicles a year. The bridge has attracted more than cars. It gained an unfortunate reputation as one of America's most melodramatic suicide sites. Last week a 65-year-old woman became...
This week a happier event occurs. The Golden Gate Bridge and highway transportation district will hand over a final installment check of $2,860,700 to the Bank of America to retire the original $35 million bond issue. The span cost a good deal more than that, of course; the interest alone came to more than $38 million. Now, with the presentation of the check to the bank, one generation has paid for what another built...
...magic lantern ... it substituted for the opaqueness of my walls an impalpable iridescence, supernatural phenomena of many colours, in which legends were depicted, as on a shifting and transitory window." The lantern is still there. So is the scrubby garden behind the house, with the little door whose tinkling gate bell announced visitors-and signaled that the young Proust was to be sent up to his bedroom to be kept out of the way. For the dedicated Proustian, the bell evokes the author's agony...
...today, the town does relatively little to exploit the commercial possibilities of Proust's name, apart from the Benoist patisserie with its madeleines. Actually, according to Larcher, Marcel's madeleines came from another bakery, located a scant three doors from Tante Léonie's garden gate. "But," he sighs, "the owner doesn't care about Proust...
...miles from Eilat across the Negev to the Mediterranean port of Ashkelon, the big hole is ordinarily choked with tankers waiting to off-load oil. Last week one such ship became a special attraction for vacationers at seaside motels. While moving through the narrow strait of Babel Mandeb (Gate of Tears), which separates the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea, the 78,000-ton tanker Coral Sea had been attacked by a speedboat whose occupants fired ten bazooka shells at the unarmed vessel during a ten-minute pass...