Word: gold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...East German Communist Boss Walter Ulbricht began a state visit to Poland last week, his special rolled into Warsaw 22 minutes late. "Polish sloppiness," growled an outraged German Communist. No less sourly, many a citizen of Warsaw noted that the black-red-and-gold flags scattered throughout Warsaw in Ulbricht's honor were the first German flags to fly over the city since Hitler's occupation troops were driven...
There is also discussion of beginning this compromise program in the Freshman Dean's Office, to avoid what Dean Monro calls "Little Gold Coasts in the Yard." This difficulty has always existed, and when freshmen move into Wigglesworth again next year, the problem will be even greater, since Wigglesworth used to be the "Gold Coast" of the Yard...
Pioneer III was a 12.95-lb. Fiberglass cone. Its surface was washed thinly with gold to make it electrically conductive, and it was ingeniously utilized as an antenna for Pioneer's radio. Over the gold were stripes of black and white paint, designed to control heat from the sun's rays and thus to keep Pioneer III warmer than Pioneer I, whose interior became so cold that some instruments did not work...
...attain a top speed of 24,486 m.p.h. This would have been enough to toss it free of the earth's gravitation and make it a satellite (or burned-up victim) of the sun. The actual speed attained, 23,606 m.p.h., was only enough to carry the gold cone 66,654 miles from the earth. It reached its high point in 20 hours of travel. Then it fell back. Gathering speed again in its long fall, it hit the earth about 20 hours later in a brief streak of flame in the night sky over Africa...
...General Practitioner of the Year, who rates a gold medal, the delegates chose Dr. Lonnie Alfonso Coffin, 68, of Farmington, Iowa, who has been practicing there for 44 years, ten of them as the town's only physician, and eight of them since he had a heart attack. "I practice," said he, "seven days a week and whenever I'm needed...