Word: goldings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...attend the courses are mostly in their mid-40s, earn an average income of $27,000. It costs a company $2,000, plus expenses and salary, to enroll an executive, and the gold "sign of Hermes" tie tack presented to graduates has come to rank with the private ice-water carafe as a status symbol back at the home office. Though some participants never really break away from their desks for the six-week period and try to run things back at headquarters with flurries of long-distance telephone calls, most men-flattered at being chosen-drop everything to take...
...Gold is no longer the coin of any realm, but it remains the one truly international money. It is the solid underpinning of central banks and national treasuries, the most favored way of paying debts among nations. Though no longer the real measure of a nation's wealth, it can set heads to shaking by its movements, as they shook again last week when the U.S. announced a $70 million gold outflow in June (double the loss in May). Despite all this interest, no one knows exactly how much gold the world has. In a new report, Barclays Bank...
...reach this figure, Barclays panned for gold statistics as far back as 1493, when Columbus returned with his first haul of New World treasure. The total includes all the known gold output since then-ignoring loss from wear, which is presumed to be slight-and an educated guess about recent but unreported Russian production. Despite the widespread departure from the gold standard during the early 1930s, demand for gold keeps climbing, and so does output. Last year the world's gold production reached 39.2 million oz., excluding Russia, compared with 24.2 million oz. a decade ago. South Africa alone...
Fast Payoff. "Numbers" is the poor Negroes' reach for the pot of gold, and 100,000 of them slip nickels and dimes to "runners" each day in the hope that their three-digit number will come up for a 600-to-1 payoff. Otherwise known as the policy racket, the numbers game drains Harlem of $50 million a year, but it also provides a living for 15,000 runners and controllers. Negro stores abound with code books advising that if you have dreamed about the police you should bet the number 782; about cats, 578; about adultery...
...long lifetime, Frank Kupka moved from painting Pre-Raphaelite madonnas, dress designing, and drawing anarchistic caricatures to luminous cauldrons of color (see opposite page); at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair, he won a gold medal with a straightforward painting of two horses ridden by naked girls on a beach. That, and learned foot notes in art history books, have been the sum of his recognition until now. But two new shows in Paris, one by Dealer Louis Carré, who years ago bought scads of the artist's works for peanuts, and another by the Galer...