Word: goldings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Finned and face-masked, they hardly look like prospectors. Yet hundreds of scuba divers on Florida beaches these days are out for treasure, not pleasure. Some have already struck it rich. In the past six weeks alone, more than $1,000,000 in lost gold and silver has been fished from the ocean bottom off Florida's east coast. With every reported haul, more and more Sunday divers take to the water, propelled by bubble-bright dreams of gleaming doubloons and pieces of eight, of jeweled swords and brassbound chests of bullion nestled in the coral...
...fact, the chances of finding gold are far better for Gulf Stream divers than they were for Yukon diggers. Of an estimated $8 billion in gold extracted from the New World by the Spanish, according to one expert, at least 5% -$400 million worth-was lost in shipwrecks on the way home. The actual value of all the lost loot is infinitely higher, since some 17th century coins and jewelry fetch huge prices; a single Spanish escudo can bring as much as $1,200 on the rare-coin market...
...coins was divided last month, the company officials and their experts sat across the table from a highway patrolman and a couple of auditors for the state, none of whom professed to have any idea what the booty-largely consisting of pieces of eight, escudos and other gold and silver coins-might be worth. Still undivided is an estimated $500,000 in artifacts, such as gold and silver belt buckles, brooches and tie clasps, whose value has not yet been determined. According to the Internal Revenue Service, any find of gold or silver is taxable under personal income. By ancient...
...sheathed leader of an Amazonian flying circus, in Goldfinger, the new James Bond thriller. Another face from Britain in Goldfinger belongs to Shirley Eaton, 27, blonde alumna of endless Carry On . . . comedies. No leather for Shirley: she appears once in a startling sort of bathing-suitless strap, later gets gold-plated from head to toe. "I end up dead," she says, "looking like an Oscar statue...
...tiny cave carved in far-off seas Whose dazzle of sun-struck gold-green Here incredibly fixed; and the sound...