Word: gold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pulling the Switch. But many a Texan was puzzled over Mr. De's refusal to become merely another Cadillac-comforted caricature. He pursued learning as others pursued the black gold. "So you're the Texan who can read," remarked a cynical reporter one day in the library of De-Golyer's impeccably furnished Mexican-style palace in suburban Dallas. Standing in the huge, 15ft-high room choked to the ceiling with some 20.000 volumes-which ranged from rare editions of Copernicus and Francis Bacon to the best sin gle private collection of works about the Southwest...
...waiting, units of the U.N. Emergency Force also came under fire for the first time. A jeepful of Norwegians and a Swedish patrol emerged unscathed from two street-corner ambushes. "Fire was re turned," said next day's U.N. communique. Making his rounds in a new blue, gold-tabbed uniform of his own design and a car bearing license UNEF-i, U.N. Emergency Force Commander E.L.M. Burns assured the Egyptians that he would pull his 1,600-man U.N. detachment out of Port Said as soon as the British and French left. Their assignment after that: chivying the Israelis...
...South Viet Nam's chief sources of foreign exchange, dwindled to nothing, and to the dismay of Viet Nam's farmers, the domestic price of rice fell to its lowest level in years. Large-scale shipments of Chinese capital to Hong Kong sent the price of gold and black-market dollars soaring in Viet Nam. But stubborn Ngo Dinh Diem had no intention of backing down...
...Rutgers gave him an honorary degree, which pleased him mainly because General Alfred M. Gruenther received one at the same time. Offered a gold medal by the National Institute of Arts...
...Gold Coasters are expected to deemphesize shooting...