Word: goldings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...There are some sports the Russians still can't fathom. They play terrible tennis, they swim like drain plugs." Don't be shocked if a few drain plugs win gold medals at the summer Olympic Games at Tokyo...
...Karachi last week, the gold-starred red flag of Communist China fluttered in the streets, even in front of the ultramodern U.S. embassy. Overhead were strung banners hailing "Chinese-Pakistani Friendship" and welcoming joyfully, if inaccurately, "Chaw...
...warmly greeted by handsome Ayub Khan, wearing a jaunty astrakhan hat. Here the street banners read DOWN WITH INDIAN IMPERIALISM IN KASHMIR, but if they were intended to prod Chou into a public expression of support against India, they failed. The two leaders toasted each other with gold-edged crystal goblets, were served by a retinue of turbaned, white-clad waiters, and exchanged platitudes about peace, friendship and Afro-Asian unity...
Foxy transports Broadwayites to an antic, 1890s Yukon, where all the fool's gold is stashed in the pouches under Bert Lahr's eyes. When Lahr crosses those eyes, the showdown is eyeball-to-eyeball. When he rolls them deliriously around the socket rims, he looks like a pixilated squirrel who has forgotten where last summer's nuts are buried...
Midst laurels stood: Hyman Rickover, 64, awarded a gold star in lieu of a second Distinguished Service Medal for "exceptionally meritorious service" as the Navy's atomic top kick; Atlanta Constitution Publisher Ralph McGill, 66, given the annual $1,000 Fiorina Lasker Civil Liberties Award for "cour age and integrity in defense of civil liberties"; NBC-TV Newsman David Brinkley, 43, presented with the 1964 Golden Key Award at a convention of the American Association of School Administrators for significant contribution to the national welfare...