Word: gates
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Perle's guests got printed maps of the fastest routes to the villa. To get the folks back home, Perle provided a siren escorted shuttle service of minibuses, each marked PERLE'S PARTY LINE. The Mesta affairs were Atlantic City's top gate-crashing attractions-despite the fact that Perle herself was everlastingly vigilant, standing at the door with pencil and guest list in hand...
Bohemian Grove is a walled-in Walden for the world-weary well-to-do; and no one-but no one-gets inside the gate unless he is either a member of San Francisco's intensely exclusive Bohemian Club or a carefully selected guest, such as Barry. A persistent reporter who hoped to follow Goldwater into the woods was advised snappishly: "The only way you'll get in is disguised as Herbert Hoover." Also rigidly forbidden: television sets and women...
With his 90th birthday only four months away, Sir Winston Churchill doesn't do much stepping out any more, but prefers to sit in the garden of his London home, 28 Hyde Park Gate. Thus, when his 23-year-old journalist grandson and namesake married Minnie d'Erlanger, 24, in a London registry office last week (he is an Anglican, she a Roman Catholic), Sir Winston sent Lady Clem to the ceremony alone. But the bridal party dropped round afterward to raise a toast with the grand old man, whom they found in the company of his plump...
...apparently decided to make the great leap forward in style. Peking has placed an order with Britain's decadent Rolls-Royce Ltd., for a $12,726 Silver Cloud Mark III and a $20,454 Phantom V. They should do a lot for his image at the Gate of Heavenly Peace, since with a little friendly assistance even the clock in a Rolls can be persuaded not to tick...
...Sutpen's never-acknowledged child by his first wife, whom he put aside when he discovered that the aristocratic Creole girl had a trace of Negro blood. The Civil War interrupts, and the men go off to fight. But when the weary combatants return and meet at the gate of the ruined plantation, young Henry Sutpen shoots down his half-brother Charles Bon. Why? Was it because of a fear that Judith would commit incest? Or miscegenation...