Word: gating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Viet Nam is also suffering the effects of a sudden withdrawal of aid by China last June, and is growing steadily more apprehensive as relations with Peking continue to degenerate. Last week, the mutual dislike blossomed into outright violence at the so-called Friendship border gate between the two countries, located 100 miles northeast of Hanoi. Hanoi claimed that two Vietnamese were killed and 25 others wounded, while Peking charged that four Chinese had died and "dozens" were seriously injured...
...enter Johnston Gate from Mass. Ave. you will be facing scenic, park-like Harvard Yard. Well, not so scenic this year, because they will be digging up the water pipes underneath it. But don't despair, even here the shadow of the New England past can be seen, because the pipe-diggers have uncovered a load of Indian artifacts in their trenches. As the archaelogists sift through the dirt you might contemplate the ironies of the Indians' situation relative to Harvard. The tradition here is very much the white man's layered over everything that had the impunity to come...
Unfortunately for the sloshed Harvard fans, coach Joe Restic's usually fine squad has taken a nosedive since the members of the class of '79 first walked through Johnston Gate. After soloing as Ivy champ in the fall of 1975, the Crimson slipped to a tie for third in '76, before suffering its first losing campaign (4-5) in Restic's eight-year tenure last fall...
...would pump away a sweltering midsummer week in Iowa, when beaches and lakes and Laker beckon? Just about anyone, according to TIME'S Midwest Bureau Chief Benjamin Gate, who monitored the cornbelt caravan, part of it on a borrowed ten-speed Gitane bike. The Ragbrai army, he reports, comes from all over the U.S. and from every way of life and income bracket. On the road, its members fall into five loose categories...
...said: "Sir Etienne Dupuch, owner and editor of the Tribune [the most influential newspaper in the Bahamas], had called at Government House to tender his respects. Windsor, who was standing just outside the main gate, dismissed Dupuch with the withering comment: 'Colored people to the tradesmen's entrance.' " TIME cites this as an example of the duke's treatment of colored Bahamians...