Word: goldings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week no one was kidding about Jean-Claude Killy, 24, hero of all France when he swept three Alpine-skiing gold medals at Grenoble. Le Monde, France's most influential newspaper, accused Jean-Claude of selling an exclusive picture story about himself to the weekly magazine Paris Match for $7,000 "after he imprudently offered it before numerous witnesses to the highest bidder." The Communist daily paper L'Humanité followed with another charge: that Killy last year agreed to use a brand of Italian ski poles exclusively in exchange for an unknown sum of money...
...with all this hypocrisy," says Killy. "Not a single competitor at the winter games could have taken part if the rules of amateurism had been applied to the letter. As for returning those three gold medals, never. They are a symbol. I won them fairly on the slopes on equal terms with all the other skiers. And that nobody can morally take away from...
Sammy Davis Jr. wore shiny leather pants-boots, side-zipped leather jacket, open-throated red shirt and a heavy gold medallion on a chain. On the make shift stage and backed by Louis Bellson's orchestra, he socked it to the audience of 485 Hollywood celebrities for a solid forty minutes. "If you don't take it easy, I'm gonna leave!" shouted Joey Bishop from his ringside table. Sammy, sweat glistening on his face, sang and danced even harder. The per formance rated him a standing ovation. Pierre Salinger seemed positively stunned. "The chemistry was fantastic...
After last November's devaluation of the British pound, persistent fears of a much greater upheaval began gnawing at the foundation of world finance. The resulting rush to exchange dollars for gold drained well over $1 billion from the dwindling U.S. hoard of bullion, cost the seven-nation London gold pool close to $2 billion. Like Britain, the U.S. has been living extravagantly be yond its budget, partly because of the heavy cost of the Viet Nam war but also through increased spending at home. Speculators' appetite for gold is only the most dramatic symptom of a monetary...
Last week a second gold fever gripped Europe and again it was fed by doubts about the strength of the dollar and the international monetary system. On the London market, gold purchases reached some $300 million, many times the nor mal demand. Because the fortunes of sterling and the dollar are closely linked, that was enough to drive the value of the pound down to a record low of $2.392, despite efforts by the Bank of England to prop it up. (In Montreal, quotations in 9210 Canadian dollars registered a comparable price.) Gold sales also soared in Paris, Zurich...