Word: goldings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...motifs they used the swamp and sea creatures that they knew best-the frog, snake, shark, turtle, crab and crocodile. These ancient masters also made the malleable metal wriggle with curvilinear life: 2-in.-thick ear plugs, nose pendants, golden mustachios that covered the mouth. They drank from gold goblets and spangled themselves with baubles that were hinged to bounce in the light. They abstracted condors into broadtailed triangles and sought symmetry in two-headed animals...
...show is the work of John Wise, a scholarly, self-effacing New York dealer and collector, and Peter Pollack, former director of the American Federation of Arts. For 75? admission, the viewer sees 500 pieces of gold worth $3,000,000 on the art market, stunningly shown in window-cases designed by Gene Moore, display director for Fifth Avenue's Tiffany & Co. Through it all shines the innocence of the pre-Columbian artist, who comes out vindicated in his greatness, as predicted by an early Spanish chronicler: "Thus the Sun taught his people how to be kings and lords...
Prospect of Gold. The bait that lured Long back into competition this season, of course, is the prospect of a gold medal at the 1964 Olympics. He will not lack for competition in Tokyo. Randy Matson, a 19-year-old Texas A. & M. freshman, already has a 64 ft. 10½ in. throw to his credit this spring. But by the time the Olympics roll around, Long may be hurling that 16-lb. ball all the way into orbit. "I've always felt that somebody would hit 70 ft. some day," he says...
...Like a Marble. "If nothing happens to upset that natural ability," says Mele, "Tony can be one of the game's great hitters." Only one bad thing seems remotely likely to happen to Oliva: choking on a chuckle. A gold tooth gleams in his constant smile, and his laugh explodes like a marble popping out of a bottle of ginger ale. Tony's English is still practically nonexistent, and he is just beginning to learn his teammates' names. "Big Powder," he calls fellow Cuban Vic Power...
...tell him, 'Why, you just got two hits off him.' Tony just smile. He don't know Mudcat. He don't know Bob Feller. He don't know Ty Cobb. He don't know nothing. He just smile and show that gold tooth...