Word: goldings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They first came by the thousands to California-Gum San, land of the Golden Mountains-when the gold fields and railroads beckoned, and in smaller streams when the U.S. set up immigration quotas and California passed its racial exclusion laws in 1892. Despite the restrictions, so many Chinese have entered the U.S. in the past seven decades that perhaps as many as half the people of Chinatown are there in violation of the immigration laws...
Pindling has also doubled the islands' casino tax to $1,000,000 a year, and as a result, Groves last month abruptly closed the gold-papered Monte Carlo gaming room at his luxurious Lucayan Beach Hotel. That leaves Grand Bahama with only the Moorish-style El Casino in operation. In Nassau, the wheels still spin at the sedate Bahamian Club, now run by Eddie Cellini, who along with his brother Dino once ran the casino at Havana's Hotel Nacional for the big-time gambler and Mafia henchman, Meyer Lansky...
Knaves & Saints. The surest fact that can be gathered from his work is that Master E.S. was a goldsmith whose crisp, fine-lined incising in gold and silver undoubtedly led him to explore engraving on copper plates. Gutenberg had just discovered a way to print words, and perhaps the notion that pictures too could be printed in much the same way led E.S. to experiment. He may have started simply by making studies for goldsmith work. Some of his prints, indeed, seem to be design patterns for chalices and monstrances. But he went on to fashion in copper a Gothic...
...seems certain to make it again at the end of the second. Says General Electric Vice President Louis Rader, an ex-ITT man: "Geneen is like a man in a field with a lot of rocks in it. And he thinks there's a pot of gold under one of those rocks, so he's got to turn over as many...
What had happened was that representatives of the Group of Ten,* meeting in London, after years of haggling had agreed on a way to revamp the free world's overworked, undercapitalized monetary system. Basically, the plan would create artificial reserves to supplement gold, the dollar and the pound. Known as SDRs (for "special drawing rights"), they are, in effect, little more than bookkeeping entries supported by the prestige of the International Monetary Fund. Members of IMF must agree to pledge their reserves to back up the SDRs, but they will not actually make additional contributions...