Word: golde
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Communist-supplied weapons, mainly Soviet, were still wrapped in their wooden packing crates-a reminder of the fresh arsenals flowing into the frontline states. Among the prize exhibits was a deadly 14.5-mm. antiaircraft gun with glistening gold-and red-tipped bullets. There was also a Czech-made land mine of Bakelite, undetectable with any of the usual metal devices used by the army. Like the other arms on display, the weapons were newer than the Rhodesians' equipment...
Financial Flicks. Erdman's cell was comfortable enough: a room in a former Basel monastery where the authorities allowed him .to order dinner and wines sent in from nearby restaurants. But, not knowing how long he would stay, Erdman started writing a novel about gold speculators. Says he: "I had just come off the excitement of international banking and I was full of theories. Primarily, I was convinced the world was facing the first cataclysmic financial events since World War II, a massive increase in the price of gold and devaluation of the dollar." The book, The Billion Dollar...
...that what is being purveyed is merely conventional wisdom. Not long ago Runner's World, the amiable and authoritative magazine subscribed to by just about all serious foot flappers, published an article alleging that alcohol has not hurt the performances of several distance runners. Frank Shorter, the Olympic gold medalist, is said to have swallowed 1½2 to 2 liters of good German beer the night before he won the '72 marathon...
...Ambler tradition. The Siege of the Villa Lipp tries a new route. The most imaginative shady deals, it says, are no longer concocted by world-weary agents and conniving government bureaucrats but by jet-hopping financiers. Ambler's latest hero is the guy who came in with the gold...
...Liza H. Gold '80 also said she has "been exposed to stronger drugs here" than in her "quiet suburb in Jersey," but that most of her drug experience, as that of most Harvard students, has been confined to marijuana...