Word: davids
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the preliminary speech by U.S. Chief Justice Earl Warren in a morning coat, the major themes of the joint conference were laid down in major speeches by Britain's Lord Kilmuir (who, as David Maxwell Fyfe, was British Home Secretary from 1951-54) and U.S. Attorney General Herbert Brownell...
FLORENCE'S PIAZZA DELLA SIGNORIA can boast that it is the greatest open-air sculpture museum in the world. There, with a commanding view, stands the massive equestrian statue of Cosimo I. Past the Fountain of Neptune is the copy of Michelangelo's great David. Still on public view are Benvenuto Cellini's Perseus and Donatello's Judith and Holoferaes...
...David Ambo had not been looking for gold at all but for a cooling drink to wash down his dinner. In the creek sand that came up in his scooped hands, the thirsty Kaka tribesman saw the glint of yellow metal. He ran home and told his wife, who returned to the creek with a shovel and an enamel basin. Within six weeks, the shores of Mboscorro Creek were aswarm with men, women and children panning gold dust. Local French authorities moved in, set up a buying agency that had instructions to pay out 170 French African francs (about...
...district, as others scratched away on the creekside for the things they wanted most, only Gold Discoverer David Ambo was sad and idle. "A big Baya-man, who knows all things," said David gloomily, "he told me that the one who discovers gold must never touch it. If he does, the spirits will make...
Divorced. By Ann Todd, 47, blonde British cinemactress (The Seventh Veil, The Paradine Case, Madeleine): David Lean, 49, talented British cinema director (Brief Encounter, Great Expectations, Summertime) after eight years of marriage, two of separation, no children; in London...