Word: portals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sharp Street West, in the heart of Hong Kong, stands a handsome new eight-story building, with its grilled entrance locked round the clock. Not even the postman with registered mail gets past the portal guards unquestioned. The 40 inmates who work, eat, sleep, exercise and even procreate inside cannot leave without passing the muster of the sentinels. The roof bristles with six radio antennas, attentively tuned to Peking. This is the Hong Kong bureau of Hsinhua, or New China News Agency-the key link in the communications chain that is the West's only steady source of news...
...northern Italy, emerging from the dark battleground sepulcher. General Charles de Gaulle fortnight ago was seen to sway a little and then steady himself against the stone portal. A photograph shot at that moment was the most commented-upon picture in the Parisian press last week. When so much hangs on one man, a whole nation anxiously watches him. At 68, Charles de Gaulle's eyesight is failing; without his thick-lensed glasses, he often fails to recognize people who shake his hand, and he suffers momentary blindness when he steps from shadow into sunlight. The old soldier maintains...
When the three entered the well-polished portal of the "21", they caused not a little consternation among the customers who were busy looking important and paying the hat-check attendant for the privilege. In the Hasty Pudding tradition, the trio was dressed in female garb. They compounded the confusion by emitting yelps and titters that struck almost every ear-drum...
...hang on tight to your basic conviction because the first thing you knew he would shove you out of it, but when the decision was reached he was absolutely loyal." There were others: General George Marshall, General Omar Bradley and Britain's Royal Air Force Marshal Portal. Said Dwight Eisenhower: "Each of these men, like each of us, had his own strengths, and here and there, I should think, his weaknesses . . . It's not profitable to try to show where you believe you were better than...
...support from the 17,000 Aluminium shareholders. Portal promised a sizable dividend boost. In a final desperate gesture, Portal called in 14 leading old-line British banks, who claimed to control 2,000,000 of Aluminium's 9,000,000 shares, to help in buying more shares. The banks said they would pay $11.48 a share for one-half of each stockholder's holdings if he would keep the rest three months, i.e., until the fight was over. This only made stockholders madder, since it showed that the original price to Alcoa had been much...