Word: gold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Adams House scored heavily in the running events of the house track meet yesterday, to win the team title. The Gold Costers took first places in four of the seven events, taking both the 100-yard dash and the 200, the 120-yard low hurdles...
With a soft rustle, the curtains open on the revolution in U.S. sea power. Drawn wide by a briefing officer, they reveal the secret wall maps in the blue-and-gold Pentagon office of the U.S. Chief of Naval Operations. The clock strikes 8 bells-and the Navy's boss, a sea roll to his stride, a faint touch of salt-spray green on the broad gold stripes on his sleeve, barges through the door at 31 knots. This freighter-shaped (5 ft. 11 in., 200 Ibs.) admiral, his ties fast to the old Navy and all its traditions...
...continue its cash contributions to the support of Allied troops in Germany. ¶ West Germany is receiving $1 billion worth of arms from the U.S. as a gift-but the only comments heard are complaints that the arms are obsolete. ¶Though Germany has accumulated $2.3 billion in gold and dollar reserves, though it has an unused budgetary surplus of $1.4 billion gathering dust in banks, Schaffer is asking the U.S. for $2 billion in defense aid, half as an outright gift...
...Cave. This week in Rangoon, 500 monks chanted through the last of 1,600 hours of reciting aloud the 14,804 pages of the Tipitakas,† the Buddhist scriptures. They sat in a "cave"-a vast jumble of rough boulders on the outside, and a blue, gold and scarlet auditorium within (capacity: 15,000), which was built by Burma's devout Premier U Nu to house the Sixth Buddhist World Council (TIME, June 7, 1954). The council has been going on for two years in this facsimile of a real cave (where the first council was held...
...author notes that the temporary seats in the Stadium, always filled in the past, have been dismantled and the cheerleaders no longer sport Crimson varsity athletic letters on their sweaters. The Gold Coast Porcellian Club and Max Keezer's used clothing store (now managed by Joe) were all part of the Cambridge scene in the twenties, McCarthy relates...