Word: goldings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...slowed the Greek economy to a walk. The government keeps prices low, so most people can buy enough to live on. But no one is interested in buying anything, outside of subsistence goods, except land. Nobody has respect for the Greek currency. Many people said they were hoarding British Gold Pounds for the period after the regime. The junta's claim that the tourist trade was "much better in 1968 than in the previous year" is true but there still aren't nearly as many tourists as before the revolution...
Unlikely Role. Though Salazar has accumulated an impressive $1.2 billion in gold and foreign-exchange reserves, the cost has been excessive. The annual rate of economic growth is only 3%, industry is stagnant and the country's infrastructure is outdated. Per capita income is $400 a year, the illiteracy rate 40%. Though the economy is underdeveloped, Salazar has clung grimly to an increasingly costly empire; its colonies extend as far as Macao on the Chinese coast and Portuguese Timor in the East Indies. Tiny Portugal is cast in the unlikely role of Africa's last major colonial power...
...start new lives in frontier villages and communes far from the capital. A select few have been carefully exempted from that harsh regimen, however, and can be expected to remain so. Not surprisingly, they are daughters of the leadership-girls whom the Chinese, in pre-Communist days, called "gold boughs and jade leaves," or descendants of noble houses. Like the rest of China's 375 million women, they adhere to austere and sexless blue-uniformity in public. There the similarity, and the egalitarianism, ends. In the plush suburban villas that Peking's leaders call home, they enjoy servants...
...mere political pooh-bah to titillate the thousands who assembled outside Broadway's Criterion Theater for the benefit premiere of Funny Girl, the movie musical of the life of Fanny Brice. George Segal showed up in a double-breasted Nehru jacket, Rod Steiger in a black shirt with gold medallion, and Leading Man Omar Sharif in an old-fashioned tuxedo with wide peaked lapels. But all oohs and ahs were for the star of the spectacle, Brooklyn's own Barbra Streisand, who said: "I feel like a kid with a plaything...
Apollo Flight Director Gene Kranz disclaims any superstition, yet regularly dons a white vest during launches, a red vest during long flights, and a flashy gold-brocaded vest immediately after a safe splashdown. At California's Hughes Aircraft Co., any unmanned space probe, like Surveyor, is accompanied in the control room by more crossed fingers, arms and legs than a contortionists' convention. Most space scientists believe in Murphy's Law: "If something can go wrong, it will go wrong, and at the worst possible time." Is there really a Professor Murphy? Answers one California scientist: "Sure, just...