Word: gold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pressure calmness by going about other duties. The U.N. General Assembly felt able to adjourn; Secretary of State Dulles felt able to take off for faraway Australia for a meeting of the SEATO Council; U.S. eyes were even swinging over to darkest Africa, where the old British colonial Gold Coast begat the new nation of Ghana to the blare of a New Orleans jazz band and appropriate quotations and paraphrases of Burke, e.g., "We are on a conspicuous stage, and the world marks our demeanor...
...Liberia, to marry as many wives as he can support). Handshaking and waving his way through crowded village and city streets, he got a handsome welcome from President William V. S. Tubman, who reflected his country's devotion to the U.S. with dinners, gifts (carved ivory box, solid gold watch chain) and words ("Our strongest, closest and most reliable friend"). On behalf of a friendly...
...same chandeliered, red-carpeted room with palms, potato chips and potables for a more friendly gathering. Following behind the food and drink came 200 G.O.P. Congressmen for a reception tendered retiring National Chairman Leonard Hall. They presented burly (6 ft. 2 in., 234 Ibs.), beaming Len Hall with a gold-plated desk set and a huge helping of kind words. But the kindest word of all that afternoon came from a noncongressional Republican who had driven over from the White House to help heap on the honors. Praising Hall for showing a political newcomer how to avoid mistakes. President Eisenhower...
...million a year, in increased subsidies and lost taxes, at a time when the government needs every franc it can lay hands on. In just over a year, excessive consumption of imported raw materials-aggravated by the post-Suez necessity of buying U.S. "dollar oil"-has cut French gold and foreign-exchange reserves from $1.7 billion to $934 million. Between the Algerian war (daily cost: about $3,000,000) and increased old-age pensions, this year's national budget shows a record $3.5 billion deficit...
Open to the Birds. Modern experts have long suspected that the description of the gold-decked walls and benches of the great hall in Beowulf owed more to the unknown author's imagination than to historical fact. At Yeavering, Hope-Taylor found no trace of such gold-leaf splendors: only a few potsherds, knives, belt fittings, nails, loom weights and a single gold coin. But the finds date from the 7th century A.D.-and he feels reasonably sure that King Edwin really ruled from this barbaric palace. It may have been the actual hall where he was converted...