Word: golde
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...opportunity for vengeance occurs one afternoon when attention is drawn to a "gold seam"?a flood of currency?spilling out of Moscow and into Southeast Asia. Is it bankrolling enemy operatives? Is it used to push heroin in the People's Republic of China? Is Drake Ko, an amoral Hong Kong millionaire, a conduit? Drake's brother Nelson is one of the two dozen most important men in Peking and perhaps also a Karla mole, one even more important than Haydon had been. Are the siblings estranged? Or is their relationship thicker then blood? Smiley backtracks through archives...
Watching Scofield slip effortlessly from dying Volpone to robustious Fox is as fascinating as the unfolding of his intricate schemes. One minute he is the Venetian magnifico, reveling in his gold and his audacity and boasting that even "the Turk is not more sensual in his pleasures than Volpone." The next he is an old man of faltering soprano. "Oh," he says, "I am sailing to my port and I am glad I am so near my haven...
...area class agents may make Barry Gold-water look like George McGovern but they still devote a great deal of time each year to the Harvard College Fund; the University itself pays 13 cents for each dollar the Fund raises and last year contributions exceeded $6 million. The Fund has now recovered from its troublesome years earlier this decade when out of desperation the Fund chairman offered free copies of Love Story as an incentive to large donors. The Faculty relies heavily on the Fund for income, particularly unrestricted income that can be used to pay for financial...
...Hillel campaign comes at the same time as a fund-raising drive by supporters of a Harvard Judaic Studies Center, but Gold said he does not think the two drives will conflict...
...Jewish studies without a live Jewish community would be completely untenable." Gold said, adding he hopes donors will be able to give to both campaigns...