Word: gold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pete Harpel again proved himself one of the finest hammer throwers in the nation Saturday, as he threw the ball 178 feet, 8 inches to win an 1C4A gold medal at Randall's Island, New York...
...night. Peter N. Stearns '57 of Eliot House and Urbana, Ill., has received a Henry Russell Shaw Travelling Fellowship. Four men received Sheldon Travelling Fellowships: David E. Bertelson '57 of Lowell House and Salt Lake City, Utah; Robert S. Freeman '57 of Dunster House and Needham Heights, Mass.; Ronald Gold '57 of Lowell House and Wilmington, Del.; and George S. Reynolds '57 of Dunster House and Marblehead, Mass...
...Gold is in the Harvard Band, and a candidate for honors in Chemistry. Reynolds, an honors candidate in Social Relations, played for the Dunster House squash team...
LONG before the camera made possible the snapshot in the wallet, a man who cared to. carry about the likeness of his wife or children had to commission an artist. The demand for such likenesses, to hang on watch fobs or dangle in gold lockets, fostered the exacting art of painting watercolor portraits on small circles and squares of ivory. The genteel custom flourished in New England in the mid-18th century, died out a century later. Last week, in conjunction with the Colonial Dames of Massachusetts, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts put on view a choice selection...
Financial Shenanigans. But not even the Swiss deny that secrecy has sheltered some fancy financial shenanigans. Egypt reportedly financed arms deals through Swiss banks. Each year the Soviet Union ships about $100 million worth of gold to Switzerland, presumably to finance such undercover operations as its spying and propaganda network in the West, trade deals to get around the embargo on strategic goods. Such ousted rulers as Egypt's Farouk, ex-President Jacobo Arbenz of Guatemala and Argentina's ousted Dictator Juan Perón keep fortunes in Swiss banks all presumably pilfered from public funds. But sometimes...