Word: gates
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Saigon's yellow stucco Freedom Palace, South Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem woke with a start. Mortar shells were falling on the lawn, and paratroopers were assaulting the palace gate...
...those who recall Joan Baez's entrance upon the Cambridge scene late in 1958, her first solo record offers proof that she is moving way out. Just where she will go is not clear, since she is still rather unknown outside of coffee houses, the Gate of Horn, and the Newport Folk Festival. But to those who must listen to folk music, Joan Baez is a welcome combination of robustness of voice, delicacy of expression, and tasteful guitar accompaniment...
...name comes from the Bible: "And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her, 'Thou art our sister; be thou the mother of thousands of millions, and let thy seed possess the gate of those which hate them...
...drums rumbled. Chief of State Liu Shao-chi and Premier Chou En-lai were on hand at the airport. On the trip into the city, a roaring crowd of half a million (said the Red radio) tossed flower petals. Lampposts were festooned with bunting, and at Peking's Gate of Heavenly Peace colored balloons floated skyward trailing slogans of greetings. It was just about the biggest and gaudiest welcome Peking had organized for any visitor ever-including the 1959 one for Nikita Khrushchev...
...turns into "fruit'' distributed at every level of officialdom. One foreign entrepreneur, after striking a bargain for some surplus airplane parts originally given to the Iranian Air Force by the U.S., resignedly paid off the colonels concerned only to have his loaded trucks held up at the gate by a young captain of the guard who inquired with pointed effect, "Don't you think captains are as good as colonels?" "They aren't even subtle about it," says one prosperous contractor. "We all regard it as merely part of the deal. Frequently, we negotiate to come...