Word: goldings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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N.E.T. PLAYHOUSE (shown on Fridays). La Marmite, which means "Pot of Gold," follows the fortunes of a disagreeable old miser who lives in fear of losing his gold...
...book." Actress Rosemary Harris says that she was overjoyed when she discovered that her co-star in the recent TV revival of Blithe Spirit would be Rachel Roberts, because the two were born under the same sign, and get along especially well together. Rudolf Nureyev wears a gold Pisces medallion around his neck. Peter Sellers has consulted a clairvoyant for the past six years, says, "It's a lot like going to a head shrinker...
While everybody else was watching the side show, the Japanese were tending to business. Masashi Ouchi set a world record in weight lifting, hoisting a total of 1,003 lbs. to win the middleweight championship. Japan swept all 28 gold medals in swimming, dominated the track and field events, won first places in everything from badminton to bicycling. When the games finally ended, with a five-gun salute and the singing of Auld Lang Syne, the cool-headed Japanese had captured 218 gold, silver and bronze medals-167 more than their closest competitors...
...Moley's reckoning, the death occurred in 1935, as the President set course for reelection. During his first years in office, Roosevelt had performed a remarkable patch job on a sick economy. But the closing of the banks, the departure of the gold standard, the proliferation of alphabetical emollient agencies - the AAA, the CCC, the SEC, the WPA, the NRA - had done more than restore public confidence. In Roosevelt's mind, Moley says, the relative success of these measures supported the conviction that he was a political messiah, the only man who could conduct the country...
...creators, G.I. Joe is also a gold mine. "Once a kid gets Joe," says President Merrill Hassenfeld happily, "his parents are hooked." Not only hooked, but squirming, for, though the basic doll costs only $4, he comes with enough extra equipment to make a quartermaster's head swim, can be equipped for multiple duties ranging from ski patrol and forward artillery observer to underwater demolition...