Word: experts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MEMOIRS: 1925-1950, by George F. Kennan. A leading expert in American-Russian relations, the former diplomat details his career as student and shaper of U.S. foreign policy...
...Harvard fencers were defeated by expert swordsmen from Columbia University in a New York City meet last Saturday...
...unprecedented visit by Treasury Under Secretary Frederick Deming to a meeting in Basel of the Bank for International Settlements, a clubby group of bankers who pointedly exclude government officials, started frenzied rumors that the U.S. was proposing some drastic step. That set off another round of speculation, which, by expert estimate, cost the U.S. anywhere from $100 million to $400 million in gold. Who did all the buying? Mostly speculators, ranging from Middle Eastern sheiks and wealthy Latin Americans to some Americans who dodge U.S. restrictions on gold ownership by dealing through Canada or Switzerland...
...mile-deep mines and then bury it in hermetically sealed vaults because, when all other currencies fail, gold can buy anything, anywhere. Particularly prized by political refugees, nervous dictators and indulgent sugar daddies, gold is eternal, objective and anonymous. Says U.S. Economist Sidney Rolfe, a 24-carat expert: "To an American, 100 shares of Xerox represents security. To a European, gold is security...
Though he is not quite in the class of that other royal karate expert, Greece's black-belted King Constantine, Spain's Prince Juan Carlos de Borbón y Borbón is good enough to have earned a brown belt, first class, and proud enough of it to invite Madrid photographers to take a look. The occasion was Juan Carlos' 30th birthday, and he celebrated by cleaving a board with the edge of his hand. There was something else to celebrate too. The Prince is now, as far as age is concerned, eligible to become...