Word: gold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Christiansborg Palace, home of the Folketing (Parliament), the 18-year-old princess was formally introduced to the Council of State, and with a gold pen signed an oath to uphold the Danish constitution. Later, as she drove home in a royal coach, crowds jammed the sidewalks to cheer her. They called again and again for her to show herself on the balcony of the royal palace. Flag-waving schoolboys swung into a popular song that ends with the words "because she is so young and pretty," and the venerable Sixtus Harbor Battery boomed out a 21-gun salute...
...called it "a mouse of a budget," but Labor was not too anxious to show itself in favor of inflation, for if threatened nationwide strikes occur soon, Labor stands to lose politically by them. In a TV broadcast, Heathcoat Amory agreed that to Britons his poor-mouth talk, when gold and sterling reserves had risen a billion dollars in six months, must seem "tiresomely cautious." But precisely because he did not bow to political pressures, the budget increased the new Chancellor's reputation. "It would be folly," said Harold Macmillan, "to be an island of inflation in a deflationary...
...descend on the U.S. and Russian pavilions. (In the crush, a Belgian guard at the U.S. pavilion was pushed through a plate-glass window, hospitalized.) Both pavilions got mixed notices. There was almost universal agreement that in architectural beauty Edward Stone's circular U.S. pavilion of steel and gold aluminum (TIME, March 31) surpassed Russia's rectangle of frosted glass and steel, though the Soviet building was an improvement on Russia's usual grim monoliths. Those who think that fairs should be fun preferred the U.S. exhibit. But for all its air of sophistication and relaxation...
Captain Pete Reider will lead seventeen members of the varsity track team in quests for gold medals in the annual Penn Relays at Philadelphia this afternoon...
...Thomas Gold, professor of Astronomy, will join Menzel in addressing the conference on "Solar Whistlers," a phenomenon resulting from lightning dicharges. Gold will also speak on "Interstellar Hydrogen." Gerald S. Hawkins, research associate at the Observatory, will also give a talk...