Word: gold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...African passengers in the dirty brown coaches of the train chugging north through Bechuanaland were hot, tired, and packed in tight. But they were young and in unusually high spirits. They shouted and whistled. They had just completed their time in the gold mines near Johannesburg. Now they were headed home again to the Rhodesias, Nyasaland, and to points beyond. On their wrists were gaudy new watches. They wore purple shirts, cowboy hats, awkward new shoes...
...Hong Kong -Calcutta -Karachi BOAC route was inevitably a temptation to smugglers. Hong Kong, for example, makes no check of outgoing baggage. And India, with its stable rupee and a middle class that likes to convert its savings into solid-gold jewelry for safekeeping (and dowries), has been the world's best market for contraband gold for centuries...
BOAC's crews in Asia, carrying only overnight cases, enjoying the semiofficial aura of their familiar dark blue uniforms, making frequent comings and goings, usually got casual treatment from customs officials. But last May Indian customs at Calcutta's Dum Dum airport found a 7-oz. gold bar in Chinese Stewardess Jenny Wang's handbag. (Her explanation: Hong Kong residents "customarily" carry gold as "mad money" in case the Chinese Communists should suddenly overrun the city.) A fellow steward, David Furlonger, seeing her being searched, was overheard by an Indian customs official as he remarked...
...person. I have to get an image of that person and convey that image to everyone else. I have to find the highlight in the song and work up to it-to find the motive for the song and personalize it for each listener." The fool's gold from the songwriters' mines may seldom merit such meticulous attention, but the measure of Felicia's talent is the astonished pleasure of her fans. When dedicated Method Actors Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward caught her at the Bon Soir this summer, they delivered what was for them an accolade...
JEWELRY PRICE CUTS up to 15% on gold and gold-plated items are in store for Christmas buyers, as low-priced Italian and Japanese imports put heat on U.S. makers...