Word: goldings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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last week went 100,000 copies of the Democratic Party's convention program, probably the slickest of its kind ever run off a press. Bound in hard white linen, bordered with a tasteful gold line, and bearing about as much resemblance to the G.O.P.'s run-of-the-mill convention program as an expensive Shakespeare folio does to the program for the Slippery Rock-East Stroudsburg football game, it will be available for purchase when the Democrats convene in Atlantic City...
Growing Nest Egg. The Goldwater gold was mined mainly from two mother lodes: the Goldwater-family retail stores; and Chicago's Borg-Warner Corp., where Peggy Goldwater's father, R. P. Johnson, was a vice president and director until his death...
First the Japanese were the world's top swimmers; then it was the Australians. Now the U.S. rules the pools. In the 1960 Rome Olympics, American men and women splashed off with nine of 15 gold medals. The competition will be tougher in Tokyo this October, but then so will the U.S. In a pre-Olympic test, 380 youngsters turned up last week in Los Altos Hills, Calif., for the national A.A.U. championships. Nine world records and 20 American marks disappeared beneath the bubbles...
...bank's Torreón branch and took more than 150,000 pesos; later that year the revolutionary forces of Victoriano Huerta robbed the Durango branch of 100,000 pesos. A few years later, when the bank's entire executive staff refused to hand over all its gold and silver bars to President Venustiano Carranza, he jailed them and virtually closed the bank for five years...
...rode to heaven on horseback in 632 A.D. The architecture was plain: a dome, 72 ft. in diameter, raised on a colonnaded drum to a peak of 116 ft. and set in the center of an octagon. But the decoration was splendid: quartered-marble paneling and glass mosaics on gold backgrounds...