Word: goldings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...peaceful illusion." Johnson was allowed to see the secret war room at CINCPAC, which he found quite different from the doomsday vault of a war room in Dr. Strangelove: "I kept looking for the button and I didn't find one. There was, however, the admiral's gold telephone. And I suppose one could make quite a mess by saying the wrong things into that...
...room on the third deck of his hilltop headquarters overlooking the white sands of the Oahu coast. He slipped into his green leather chair at the center of a U-shaped table, opposite a wall on which illuminated status reports could be flashed, and picked up a dialless gold telephone at his left. On the Stateside end of the circuit was Robert McNamara. Sharp seldom left that room during the next 22 hours. He made about 100 calls to Washington, even more than that to his subordinate Pacific commanders of the Air Force, Army and Navy...
Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold of the Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel Foundation and the Rev. Canon James P. Breeden of St. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral in Boston are scheduled to speak at the service. If King does come, he will replace Breeden...
...thirds of the world's gold is now held as monetary reserves, about $20 billion being legally tied down as partial backing for paper currencies; the remaining one-third is absorbed by industrial arts and private ownership. The U.S., with 446 million oz. of monetary gold, has by far the largest holdings. Next: West Germany (110 million oz.), France (91 million), Switzerland (81 million), Britain (71 million). As for Russia, how much gold the country holds has become such an international mystery that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency sniffed around, recently concluded that Russian monetary reserves must run about...
Blown back in dark gold strands...