Word: gold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bayard Taylor, New York Tribune, reporting the Gold Rush...
Amid the morning mists and hillocks of San Francisco, where men once shouted "Gold!", there gathered last week a distinguished concourse of 38 foreign minis ters and 260 delegates representing 60 of the 81 countries on earth. They were met by the Golden Gate to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the founding of the U.N. ; four of them - Russia's Vyacheslav Molotov, Great Britain's Harold Macmillan. France's Antoine Pinay and the U.S.'s John Foster Dulles - expected to fix up the housekeeping and feel out the climate for the Parley at the Summit...
...eight "great themes" for westerns, according to Critics Jean-Louis Rieupeyrout and Andre Bazin. whose book, Le Western, ou le Cinema Americain par Excellence, is the most exhaustive of the new studies. The big themes (based on a study of 150 westerns): 1) the birth of a nation, 2) gold prospecting, 3) the frontier and the great plains, 4) the linking of east and west, 5) men and beasts, 6) the War of Secession, 7) Indian warfare, 8) representative westerners...
...sounded out a tribal chant. Tribesmen, some wearing only loincloths, others rigged out in bright robes and peacock feathers placed ceremonial jars of wine from each mountain village before him. Through long, curved bamboo stems, Diem took a ceremonial draught from each jar. Then village elders slipped three large gold bracelets on Diem's arm, spread the head and entrails of two sacrificed water buffaloes before him, and pledged their allegiance to his government...
Sounder currencies made it possible to lift restrictions on trade and foreign payments, said Auboin, as he ticked off Europe's progress: reopening the London gold market, lifting controls on the use of transferable sterling for current transactions, giving limited convertibility to the German mark, and unblocking other German balances. As a result, "monetary reserves are now better distributed than ; they used to be." The total gold and dollar holdings outside the U.S. rose $2.2 billion last year, with Italy, Germany and France taking the lion's share...