Word: goldings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Brumidi's grand dream was to paint a 9-ft.-wide frieze around the Capitol Rotunda, below the dome, illustrating the history of the New World from the landing of Columbus to the Great Gold Rush. He was 72 when he started, and he had finished six of the 15 panels when, in 1879, he fell from his scaffold chair, grasped at the ropes and hung for 15 minutes before being rescued. Brumidi never fully recovered from the shock of the experience, spent the last few months of his life working in the seclusion of his studio, while other...
...Bernardin has choreographed their acts, there is not much actual stripping at Le Crazy (as Parisians call it), since most of the girls appear already bare. Nadia Safari, for example, wears a widely spaced net sarong and lies in a hammock under streaked gold and black lighting that is supposed to suggest the primordial jungle. Crazy Horse girls are, in the main, above bumping and grinding. Lighting is everything, and Bernardin refers to his dozens of tiny spotlights collectively as "my brush...
...Gold still colored the decisions of governments from Paris to the Pedernales. Largely because of the French decision two weeks ago to cash in more of its dollars for U.S. gold, the U.S. gold supply fell last week by $200 million to a total of $15.2 billion - a bigger drop than occurred...
Early figures also indicate that the U.S. payments deficit in the fourth quarter jumped to between $1.2 billion and $1.5 billion, roughly as high as it was for the first three quarters combined, thus putting into foreign hands even more money that is redeemable for gold. Though the deficit fell from $3.3 billion in 1963 to some $2.65 billion in 1964, the new figures were much higher than Washington had expected...
President Johnson's request for the smallest foreign aid budget ever - $3.38 billion - was clearly influenced by the necessity of stemming the U.S. gold outflow and payments deficit. The Government planned several other measures to narrow the payments gap. The Treasury's new Under Secretary, Fred Deming, said that his department might place a tax on U.S. bank loans abroad, which amounted to between $2 billion and $2.5 billion last year. The Treasury will also begin to sell an additional $100 million weekly in short-term securities, offering higher interest rates to attract buyers; by thus edging...