Word: gates
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Farms that the Government had bought some years ago and used for mysterious purposes. Armed with binoculars, she set up a vigil in a lane adjoining the farm, noted a great coming and going of cars. One night, a blue station wagon carrying six men sped out of the gate and down the road toward Dover Air Force Base in Delaware. Mary Swain gamely followed for a few miles, but lost sight of the car. Later, the Department of State said that Powers had been at Ashford Farms but had been spirited away...
...president's office won students the right to argue their demand for integration of 150 university-owned apartment houses. At Swarthmore, students from 57 campuses spent the weekend in disarmament seminars. And at the University of California in Berkeley, rallies, demonstrations and caucuses boiled incessantly outside Sather Gate, a casbah for political activists...
...after. When other methods fail, Cass attempts suicide. But Judith and her young man, already secretly married, save her life and their own happiness. Cassandra returns to her highly refined academic loneliness. The book ends with a heavy-footed symbolism-Cass tosses one of her socks off the Golden Gate Bridge, realizing, presumably, that individuality must in the end triumph over twinism...
...recollection. "I fell in all the down hills. I was tense, and my reflexes always failed." By 1960 Ferries was still falling-at Kitzbühel, St.-Moritz, Squaw Valley. At Stowe, Vt., he streaked through the slalom in record time-only to be disqualified for straddling the final gate...
Thermometers plunged toward zero, and so did labor relations at South Bend's Studebaker-Packard plant, strikebound for three weeks. As pickets huddled to keep warm one day last week, a black Mercedes-Benz picked a path toward the main gate. At the wheel was Studebaker's Hollywood-handsome president, Sherwood Harry Egbert, 41. Pickets closed around his sedan, refused to let Egbert through unless he showed a union pass...