Word: goldings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Captain E. T. Barnette pushed a cargo-laden stern-wheeler ten miles up central Alaska's Chena River, halted when the waters became too shallow, and established a trading post from which, with the gold rush one year later, sprang the city of Fairbanks. Barnette should have settled on higher ground...
...clear what they all meant to each other as the tribe gathered round the couple, and the Boo-Hoo, a priest in the hippies' Neo-American Church, his face painted gold for the occasion, conducted the double-necklace ceremony. Then to share in the love, 50 of the guests formed a tight huddle around the bride and groom, hugged up close and rocked back and forth to the mu sic, while the lights flashed, balloons burst and everyone chanted the Hindu Hari Krishna (Hail Krishna). Soon everybody was kissing everybody. Nancy was radiant. "Everything's beautiful...
Following that victory the Crimson traveled to Winnipeg, Canada, for the Pan American Games. The obvious favorite at the meet, Harvard had little difficulty in defeating all comers and winning the Gold Medal...
...about a year, record critics and Beatleologists have been listening between the grooves for every little innuendo the Beatles offer up and some that they don't. For example, the Beatleologists struck gold this spring when they found out that "Strawberry Fields Forever" was about a women's penitentiary in Liverpool named Strawberry Fields. Suddenly the title took on a suggestion of eternal imprisonment, and such lines as "nothing to get hung about" revealed a definite gallows humor...
Harsh Terms. The America's Cup is the closest thing to a Holy Grail in sport. "On no other sporting prize," wrote the late Everett B. Morris, in his definitive history Sailing for America's Cup, "has so much gold, technical virtuosity, brainpower and brawn been expended." The contest, not the old Victorian silver ewer, is the thing. In the demands it makes on boat and man, it is the ultimate, the very pinnacle in yachting. What started 116 years ago as a gentlemen's lark, has become a proving ground for technocrats, a vast public spectacle...