Word: goldings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...than $1 billion in long-term debts, more than half of which must be repaid in hard currencies. Just to service his short-term debts of more than $250 million in hard currency, President Gamal Abdel Nasser was recently forced to sell off a third of Egypt's gold, leaving his country with a dangerously low hard-currency reserve of $108 million. Nasser has also been desperately trying to get his creditors to extend repayment deadlines...
When it's dismissal time in TV's gold-paved wasteland, some show folk go quietly, while others go kicking the wastebaskets. Last week, after CBS canceled his Candid Camera program, Creator-Host Allen Funt, 52, went out with a bang and a whimper. Deciding that it was time "for a man to make a public happening of a catastrophe in his life," Funt appeared on a late-hour Manhattan radio show to detail the in glorious mistreatment he had met at the hands of show biz in general and CBS in particular...
...long-forgotten efforts by John Steinbeck, Erskine Caldwell, Somerset Maugham, Robert Ruark. Playboy also dipped into the ribald classics; despite constant mining, the Boccaccio and De Maupassant vein is still running strong. In the early days, name writers shunned Playboy. Today, Vladimir Nabokov, James Baldwin, Kenneth Tynan, Herbert Gold, Ray Bradbury and Ken Purdy regularly provide respectable material. This upgrading of fiction is largely due to Auguste Comte Spectorsky,* 56, who was hired from NBC by Hefner to bring some New York know-how and sophistication (a favorite Playboy word) to the magazine. "Spec" has done that and more. Last...
Died. Mir Osman AH Khan Bahadur, 84, Nizam of Hyderabad, Eastern potentate and ruler of Hyderabad's 16 million, said to be the" world's richest man, with about $2 billion in gold, jewelry and art treasures, until Indian troops ended his rule in 1948, forcing him to accept a meager $900,000 yearly allowance, most of which he spent to support courtiers, bodyguards, concubines, servants and some 2,000 legitimate and illegitimate Nizam children, while he himself lived like a miser as a matter of personal choice, reputedly even darning his old socks; of influenza; in King...
...were ceremonially slaughtered, the tanker British Confidence blasted a salute, and Libya's 76-year-old King Idris last week officially opened his country's newest oil port at Marsa Hariga, two miles from Tobruk. To mark the occasion, the desert monarch was handed a $5,000 gold key by Texas' Nelson Bunker Hunt, 40, second son of H. L. Hunt and half owner of the oil company that made the Marsa Hariga facilities possible. The other 50% interest is held by British Petroleum Co., and the firm is named - logically, if not lyrically- BP Bunker Hunt...