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Freshmen have been eating behind bars at the Union since yesterday morning, when workers installed an eight-foot iron gate across the entryway that opens directly into the Union Dining Hall...
Dining Services considered drawings of many proposed gates in search of the design which would best blend in with the stone vault around it and "the feel of the historic building." They decided on a classical iron gate built mainly of vertical bars, said Swift...
Bush, trying to avoid overconfidence, campaigned in Fulton, Mo., and invoked the memory of Winston Churchill at the Westminster College where Churchill delivered his 1946 "iron curtain" speech warning of Soviet expansionism in Eastern Europe...
Newspaper newsrooms are often unhappy places, but few are regularly likened to Stalinist Russia or Maoist China. Such were the favored metaphors among staffers of the New York Times under the iron grip of the paper's former executive editor A.M. Rosenthal. With a hair-trigger temper and skin as thin as a sheet of newsprint, Rosenthal was known to be convivial one moment, then, at the slightest miscue, fly into a rage. Those who unquestioningly did his bidding thrived; many of those who crossed him made their careers outside the hallowed offices at Times Square...
THIS summer, the Kroks went on a world tour which lasted two months--and brought them behind the Iron Curtain for the first time. The singers say they especially enjoyed singing on the streets of Moscow...