Word: golden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Golden Tablets...
Repeat Performance. In Nauvoo, Ill., Earl Golden, riding in a parade, had a heart attack, fell from his horse, died; five minutes later his brother Martin heard about it, fell dead...
...direction, the ceremonial center of the Mixtecs and Zapotecs at Monte Alban, near Oaxaca, had been excavated. Digging carefully into the 60 square kilometers of overgrown mounds, Dr. Caso's men unearthed a dazzling complex of subtly designed stone tombs and religious buildings. In many they found golden masks and necklaces, carvings of stone and jade which had escaped the greedy Conquistadors...
...Hand. After years of mismanagement, AVCO was so close to death it was hardly breathing. Nevertheless, there were plenty who wanted a chance at the carcass. Errett Lobban Cord, a brass young auto salesman who had skyrocketed up in the golden '20s,-and put out a slinky car bearing his name-controlled AVCO. But to a cunning infighter like V.E., with the well-heeled Schroders again in his corner, it was the work of only a few months to knock out Cord* and take over the company in August...
This crossword puzzle is all worked out very suavely by one of the most workmanlike of narrative puzzle-makers. Graves's account of Jesus' childhood in Egypt is written with simplicity and reverence; his accounts of ancient ritual surpass anything in The Golden Bough; his reporting of ancient theological discussions is sometimes dull but often absorbing, for Graves is a writer of practiced lucidity. If it could be read in the same spirit as the Claudius books, King Jesus would be fair enough reading...