Word: gateway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pornographic" by U.S. customs.) Despite its elongated ears, topknot and neat mole like a third eye, Brundage's Buddha looks more classical than Oriental, shows that East and West can cooperate on the plane of art. When and if Brundage's conditions are met, San Francisco, the Gateway to the Orient, will take its place, in one giant stride, among the top U.S. centers for Oriental...
...Gateway Singers--three white men and a Negro girl, who are now appearing at Storyville--have allegedly been barred from national network appearances because they are "integrated," according to reports from the group's manager, Franklin Fried, and from a Harvard Business School student who is involved in promotion of the Gateways...
...their lead over a growing flock of aggressive foreign competitors without a drastic change in U.S. air policy. Last week the U.S. airlines got a new warning of the onward march of foreign competition. From the State Department came an announcement that Air France will get an additional U.S. gateway at Baltimore and a polar route to the U.S. West Coast. BOAC will get the right to land at Tokyo on its San Francisco-Hong Kong run, which is expected to take $7,800,000 yearly away from U.S. lines. A CAB examiner recommended that Air India be authorized...
...crossed the blue moat surrounding the Imperial Palace. Behind her lay the roaring, garish city of Tokyo, with huge advertising balloons adrift above the rooftops. Ahead stretched the quiet greenery of the palace grounds, where unpaid volunteers tended the gardens. As her chauffeur-driven car passed through the tall gateway, guarded by policemen with gold chrysanthemums on their collars, Michiko was carried into the secluded "world within the moat" that will be hers next month on her marriage to Crown Prince Akihito, 25. Slim, curly-haired Michiko Shoda is the first commoner in 2,600 years to marry an heir...
...week's end the Russian air control officer was still showing up every day to help approve Western flights to Berlin. One three-truck U.S. convoy was stopped for eight hours at the West Berlin gateway-but by Soviet, not East German guards; and hundreds of other trucks passed through without difficulty. In Moscow Nikita Khrushchev told graduates of Moscow's Military Academies that the Soviet Union had not meant to imply the use of force at Berlin, but that his government would soon offer the U.S., Britain and France "definite, concrete proposals regarding the status of Berlin...