Word: gold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pioneers in the new-school of psychological westerns, is still one of the best. While the heroes of High Noon and Yellow Sky were softened either by sentiment or the vague suspicion of fear, The Gunfihter features men who are just plain, uncomplicated tough. Naturally, their hearts are gold plated and they dearly love their wives and friends, but this doesn't stop them from gunning down fresh young punks, far their inferiors in gun fighting skill, or kicking other young punks who are down and unarmed. The amazing thing is that the writers, actors, and director are so skillful...
...Russian Help. This month, in one of those outbursts of recriminations that occur in Mexico City's colony of Spanish ex-Loyalists, Indalecio Prieto stirred up the long-buried story of the gold hoard, accused his fellow exile, Juan Negrín, of complicity. This time, Franco's Spain picked up Prieto's accusations. In formal notes to the U.S., Britain and France, Franco's Foreign Minister protested against Russian use of the Spanish gold in European trade. Since the Russians have undoubtedly melted down the coins and removed the Spanish mint marks from the bullion...
...ground with water (TIME, Jan. 17). Estimated price: $400,000. The two Hunts agreed to pay all future costs of development and exploration. Said 28-year-old N. Bunker Hunt: "It wasn't too long ago that we were still mining sulphur like we mine gold. Then someone thought up the idea of melting it and forcing it to the surface with steam, and it revolutionized the industry. I think Shepherd's process may do the same for uranium." ¶ Jeeps with scintillometers roamed the back-country roads along Texas' Cap Rock, an outcrop of red sand...
Boundless wealth, he kept assuring Mette (who resolutely sat tight in Denmark), was just around the corner-in Tobago, for instance, where they would "have to do nothing but dig up gold with a spade and shovel." Gauguin actually got as far as Panama on their Tobago road, but the only gold he managed to dig up was the navvy's pay Gauguin got for working on the new canal. From there he pushed on to Martinique: "Paradise, after Panama," he wrote. And the women! "Pretty, my goodness! . . . They do their best to enslave me." Gauguin finally settled down...
...Location. In London, the research center of the British gold, silver and jewelry industry announced that henceforth engagement rings will be sold on major cruise liners to take advantage of shipboard romances that frequently cool off on shore...