Word: goldings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gold Reserves. The Belgian paras sustained only seven casualties in rescuing the hostages. Four hours after their arrival, the Congolese 5th Mechanized Brigade rolled into Stan, spearheaded by the tough white fighters of Major Mike Hoare, 44, a starchy South African who served behind Japanese lines in Burma under Britain's mystical guerrilla warfare expert, Orde Wingate. No mystic himself, Hoare insisted that his 300 men stay neatly shaved, refrain from drinking beer before battle, but cared not a whit what they did otherwise. Mostly South Africans and Rhodesians, they gave no quarter to any black resembling a rebel...
Gbenye and his rebel ministers had fled Stanleyville, and with them went more than 1,500 Ibs. of gold (valued at nearly $800,000) from the Kilo-Moto Mines and more than $6,000,000 from the vaults of the Banque du Congo. But many Simbas had stayed behind sniping at anyone who moved, and the mopping up was bloody...
...Conservative government had closed its eyes too long to a mounting trade deficit that by year's end seemed certain to top $2 billion, almost equivalent to the gold reserves of the entire sterling bloc (see charts}. Theoretically, few economists quarreled with Wilson's first, stringent measures to close the gap: a "temporary" 15% tax on virtually all imports reaching Britain, plus tax incentives for British industrialists who boost exports. Practically, however, Wilson could hardly have acted more ineptly...
Michelangelo said that the doors might "fittingly stand at the gates of Paradise." All Florentines of the 1450s agreed that their Baptistery's portal sculpted by Lorenzo Ghiberti, was worthy of immortality. The double doors, 16 ft. by 9 ft., cast of bronze and overlaid with gold, held ten panels that told Old Testament tales in such grace ful relief that the metal seemed brushed on like oils...
...McChesney Martin Jr., chairman of the Federal Reserve, "and showed that the bankers' international contacts are pretty good." Despite that typical banker's understatement, the operations had many of the elements of secrecy, mystery and intrigue that would do justice to James Bond-or to Goldfinger, his gold-hungry...