Word: gates
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although he has a sizable cut of Presley's estimated $2,000,000 a year income, Parker still clings to his carny ways. Once when Elvis appeared at Dallas' Cotton Bowl, Hollywood friends found Manager Parker near the main gate, selling Presley-autographed photos. His explanation: "Don't you ever get so big you won't sell pictures." He has sold other things, too, at Presley performances. Bucking custom, he makes newsmen pay for their own tickets, seldom passes out freebees even to close business associates, has been known to peddle war-surplus binoculars...
Trigger for the students' revolt was Menderes' latest move: a bill granting almost dictatorial powers to a special commission (TIME, May 2) designed to investigate the "subversive, illegitimate" activities of the Republican opposition party. Gathering round a statue of the late great Ataturk at the university gate, 1.500 students at Istanbul University began shouting "Hurriyet!" ("Freedom"'), and singing Ataturk's famed song of victory...
...Leonard Fruchtman's Bally Ache is a front runner who likes to take the lead at the starting gate, go for broke to the finish. Says one trainer: "He runs at you every step of the way. He's run on every kind of track and has beaten just about every horse they have led to him." Steel Executive Fruchtman picked up his horse for a bargain-basement price of $2,500, named him Bally Ache after the Jockey Club Commission turned down several other proposed names. Says Fruchtman: "I nearly got an ulcer before we named...
...Stable, Ogden Phipps) and Jimmy Jones (Calumet Farm), canny Hirsch Jacobs works for himself: he breeds and trains his own horses. While rival trainers tend to concentrate on a few promising horses, developing and saving them for a handful of high-prize stakes races, Jacobs sends his to the gate in wholesale lots. With his horse-factory methods, Jacobs seldom gets a truly famous horse. He has never, for example, won the Kentucky Derby; nor does he have a candidate for 1960's triple crown of racing. But if he lags in the big races, he hogs the lesser...
Chain Reaction. At i: 20 p.m. the blowup came. When police tried to seize an African at the gate to the compound, there was a scuffle and the crowd advanced toward the fence. Police Commander G. D. Pienaar rapped out an order to his men to load. Within minutes, almost in a chain reaction, the police began firing with revolvers, rifles, Sten guns. A woman shopper patronizing a fruit stand at the edge of the crowd was shot dead. A ten-year-old boy toppled. Crazily, the unarmed crowd stampeded to safety as more shots rang out, leaving behind hundreds...