Word: goldings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mexico, took only $20,240-and most of that was in traveler's checks. What burned Babs was that they footpadded off with the "irreplaceable" jewel collection of her seventh husband, Laotian Prince Raymond Doan Vinh Na Champassak. The princess felt so sentimental about the necklace with the gold and diamond elephants, the opal stickpin, the emerald cuff links and the rest that she posted a $10,000 reward...
Founded in the gold-rush days of 1849, the California court seemed destined to become the nation's zaniest tribunal. Justice David C. Terry (1855-59), for example, was a ferocious Mississippian who began honing his bowie knife on assorted victims as a 13-year-old soldier in the Texas War of Independence. After getting elected to the California court on the Know-Nothing ticket, Terry was jailed and convicted for stabbing a San Francisco vigilante. Not only was Terry freed, he became chief justice in 1857 and promptly killed U.S. Senator David C. Broderick in California...
...exploding population; what was once useless scrub in the central state of Goiás is now pasture land for 4,000,000 head of cattle. And prospectors fanning out from the road have found a vast mineral potential, with deposits of nickel, tin, lead, zinc, copper, gold, diamonds and quartz...
This fall he participated in the Gold Racquets Tournament in New York. In the first round he lost a close match to the United States national champion, Steve Vehslage. He won the consolation by beating Penn's number one player, Edward Coonley. Coonley is the third ranking amateur in the nation and is expected to be 1966 Ivy League singles champion...
...feet eight inches, great hands, mother and father divorced, sister likes Fanny Farmer cherries," the friend began. Bubas instantly identified the boy. The game went on and on, until the friend described a boy "6ft. 10-in., 240 Ibs., averaged 32.1 points per game, an orphan with one gold tooth in front." Vic's brow wrinkled. "There is no such boy," he said finally. "Right," sighed his friend...