Word: goldings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...named by the Royal Yacht Club to represent his country in the 5.5-meter yacht class at the 1964 Olympics. Sailing the Fram III, designed by U.S. Master Draftsman Bill Luders, Harald is rated a good bet for a medal of some sort, but it had better be gold if he is to maintain status in court circles. Both his father, King Olaf, and his good friend, Greece's King Constantine, hold gold medals for sailing won at the Olympics...
...Francisco Bay's East Oakland estuary, but they are getting used to watching out for the thin-skinned craft with the straining oarsmen. Since California first dipped an oar in 1907, it has won the Intercollegiate Rowing Association Regatta eight times. Golden Bear crews have won three Olympic gold medals in three tries, and established themselves as the power in the West...
...Force. Once the radio denture is in place, the subject enters a Faraday cage, a metal-mesh enclosure that blocks out most outside electrical disturbances. As the subject chews and drinks in his static-free environment, his tooth transmitter gives out a signal every time two spots of gold on the chewing surfaces of two opposing teeth come together. In addition, a muscle-tension detector attached to the skin of his jaw is connected to an electromyograph. The signals from the chewing teeth and the muscle-tension record of the electromyograph are picked up by a receiver and recorded...
...well he might. He gets caught under collapsing tents, heads a sandy downhill charge sitting on skis made from barrel staves, finally leads his men-all wearing nothing but droopy long underwear-in a rampageous free-for-all with renegades who are trying to highjack a shipment of Union gold. Bringing the Civil War era to life in Mack Sennett style calls for a tricky blend of taste and ingenuity that few have tried since Buster Keaton's The General, a silent classic of 1926. In Rear, a whole platoon of actors work up a sweat doing the funny...
...York Stock Exchange. Brokers figure that half a dozen mining companies have raised between $4,000,-000 and $6,000,000 by floating new shares. Some of the funds have already slipped back across the border, are being used by United Comstock Lode Lines to reopen the dormant Comstock gold mine in Nevada. Among the half dozen new millionaires at Timmins, 28-year-old Pat Giardine made a killing on both his claims and controlling interest in Bunker Hill Extension Mines - which he had bought for a song...