Word: bust
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that hangs in the Louvre. The price it was supposed to bring at Sotheby's next June was ?1,000,000, or $500,000 more than the record-breaking $2,300,000 that the Metropolitan Museum of Art paid last November for Rembrandt's Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer. The staggering sum only increased the shock of the academy's announcement. Having sneered at the fusty place for nearly 200 years, the public now began to snarl...
...maneuvering last week between Congressman Carl Vinson and the Kennedy Administration, the bomber that was the cause of the fracas was all but ignored. What is the RS-70? Why did it stir such emotion in the Pentagon, the White House and the Congress? Is it a bust or a super plane...
...newly uneasy last week. Even if the total gold drain for 1962 could be held to the 1961 level of $700 million, as the Administration expects, there would be no cause to cheer. If-improbably-the U.S. continued to lose gold at that rate indefinitely, Fort Knox would go bust sometime around...
Friendly Persuasion. Because the whole free world has a stake in seeing that Fort Knox doesn't go bust, Washington has recently been inundated with a flurry of radical suggestions for keeping it solvent. A group of Republican Congressmen want the Government to discourage speculation in gold by abandoning the guaranteed U.S. purchase price of $35 an ounce. French Economist Jacques Rueff, who masterminded De Gaulle's successful currency reform plan, urges complete scrapping of the managed-money system and a return to the classical gold standard-a step that he argues would stimulate the international flow...
...Crimson fortunes would best be a subject for the cerebrations of our pundit friend. Pete Kelley and his jump shot will be back. Dennis Lynch, for two years the early season flash and late season bust, also returns for his senior year. Captain Gene Augustine is the only backcourt man with any experience...