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...back. When Sieur de Champlain was snooping around the east coast in 1603 and came upon the broad mouth of the river, he named it the River du Guast after his fellow adventurer. He thought he was bestowing a great honor because he believed he had come upon a gateway to the West. He never got around to investigating further. If he had, he might have thought differently...
Across the Detroit River from the foot of Woodward Avenue you can see Windsor, Ontario, a city with close to 250,000 people. Windsor, a medium-sized processing and industrial center, is the quiet gateway to Ontario's southern farmlands. Windsor is hardly a hub cap's throw away from the soon to be completed Detroit Renaissance Center. From the top of the Center's 70-story tower the men who built Detroit and their successors will have a bird's eye view of their city and the city across the river, and then maybe will be able...
Hilton, the traditional gateway for Presidents, Kings and heads of state. But all they got was a fleeting glimpse of Ford's motorcade zooming past on its way to the rear service entrance, normally used by maids and waiters. The small crowd clustered there saw Ford for perhaps five seconds. Reported TIME'S Midwest bureau chief Benjamin Cate: "He alighted from the presidential limousine, forced a smile across his face and waved sheepishly while security men swarmed around him. The wave seemed almost a gesture of embarrassment, as though Ford were saying to those watching that...
Arson Mystery. The mystery started last February with what seemed to be an accident. Fire suddenly swept Gateway's $110,000 main building and also wrecked some $60,000 worth of equipment the clients were assembling. Yuba City fire investigators said the blaze was apparently a case of arson, but they could not explain it. Gateway Director Donald Garrett, 43, a jovial, bearded man who weighed a jovial 300 lbs., moved all of Gateway's work to a smaller building that housed the upholstery project...
...shook Garrett's colleagues, but it also seemed to confirm the gossip and indicate that the attacks on the project itself were now finished. One of Garrett's friends, Donald Larsen, 37, assistant director of a similar vocational-training project in Eureka, applied to replace him at Gateway. The staffers got together to give the new director a welcoming party. As they were raising their glasses to toast the end of their troubles, smoke drifted over the nearby swimming pool. When they ran out to look, they found two of their cars burning fiercely...