Word: goldings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...jogged a couple of miles every morning to keep in shape, shinnied a 40-foot rope in his backyard on weekends, usually bicycled the three miles between his Houston home and the NASA Space Center. To his fellow astronauts, it came as no surprise when White took along a gold cross, a St. Christopher medal and a Star of David on his 62-orbit Gemini 4 flight, explaining afterward that they were "the most important thing that I had going...
...poor parish priest," as he likes to call himself, was already gloating over his anticipated new riches. "I'll be the first clergyman in the history of the world to get a gold platter," exulted ostracized Congressman Adam Clayton Powell last week on the Bahamian isle of North Bimini. That hardly amounted to the "fantastic" disclosure promised for his first press conference since Congress last month decided not to seat him pending an investigation of his free-wheeling way with public funds. But then Powell never before had made a hot-selling record. According to Jubilee Records...
...Somoza fortune in Nicaragua is estimated to total some $100 million. The Somozas hold majority interests in the national airline, the steamship company, the gold mines, a steel-fabricating plant and the main port complex; they own cattle ranches, cotton warehouses and thousands of acres of real estate. They have neutralized most of their potential opponents by creating a system in which they have allowed even their opposition to grow rich on the prosperity-but not to share the power. So strong is the Somoza power and confidence, in fact, that the current Anastasio-who is ready to switch from...
...furnished with Gobelin tapestries and Louis XVI furniture (including chairs made for Marie Antoinette). It is surrounded by a garden with plants from Buckingham Palace and Mount Vernon. In the French Regency dining room, guests-including Cabinet Ministers and royalty-eat from Austrian Emperor Franz Josef's gold-plated service. Recently, the White House gratefully accepted Mrs. Post's gift of some of her extra tablecloths. The pleasures are somewhat simpler at Topridge, mountaintop summer hideaway near Saranac Lake, N.Y. Guests are flown in aboard Mrs. Post's 16 passenger Viscount, the Merriweather, then transported by limousine...
...company were no less help to the cause of Afro-Anglo-American friendship. One evening after the day's shooting, for example, American Negro Actor Raymond St. Jacques wandered into the Plage bar dressed in a gaudy, pajama-like African garment called a sapara, accented by a gold earring in his left ear. A half-loaded American businessman turned to his drinking companion and said loudly, "Hey! Look how colorful that...