Word: goldings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...State of the Union" speech to a Democratic caucus last month: "If, out in space, there is the ultimate position . . . then our national goal and the goal of all free men must be to win and hold that position." Johnson began calling space conferences in his green-and-gold office off the Senate gallery. In between he dictated memos on the double, reread the Senate debates that preceded passage of the 1946 Atomic Energy Act, setting up the Atomic Energy Commission and the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy...
...whose Peaks and Lamas was a bestselling account of his Tibetan mountain climbing in the 1930s, and Diplomat Hugh Richardson, who had served as chief of the British mission in Lhasa for eight years before and after World War II. They compiled lists of Rampa inaccuracies, e.g., mention of gold candlesticks, unknown in Tibet; description of Rampa's mother wearing a single earring, a privilege restricted to male officials of a certain rank. Joining forces with Austrian Author Heinrich Harrer (Seven Years in Tibet), Pallis and Richardson decided to go to work on three-eyed Rampa with a private...
...After collecting a bet on the winning gelding Bali Ha'i at a race in Auckland, N.Z., Britain's touring Queen Mother Elizabeth got an even more pleasant surprise. When she presented a gold cup to Owner Sir Ernest Davis, Sir Ernest announced: "We have with us the greatest lady in the world. I want to present Bali Ha'i to her on behalf of the sporting public of New Zealand...
...office." Last week Manhattan's so-called art theaters refused to give a line a chance to form for a major work of art, a film from India called Father Panchali. The theater operators decreed that the picture did not measure up to their standard-the gold standard. Explained one manager baldly: "The picture...
...life and ceremony was not merely personal; pomp and circumstance were a matter of public relations, an art in which Wolsey was a master. A high point of his career came when he stage-managed the futile but beautiful pageant known to history as the Field of Cloth of Gold: in a pleasant French valley, England's King Harry and France's young King Francis I met to pledge a treaty of friendship. It was, says Author Ferguson, "the last great canvas of the Middle Ages ... it marked the end of the age of chivalry and somehow prophetically...