Word: goldings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BARRY I. GOLD, '68 University of Cincinnati...
...time when 500,000 workers still had not returned to their plants. In his new role as Finance Minister, Maurice Couve de Murville conceded that France not only faced a budgetary deficit of $2 billion this year but might also be forced to sell some of its $5 billion gold reserves in order to meet a looming gap in its balance of payments. It all meant, explained Foreign Minister Michel Debré, that (Quelle horreur!) France would have to cut back on De Gaulle's prized nuclear strike force...
...crush to reach the Embassy Room's main door. Bill Barry, his bodyguard, wanted to go that way despite the crowd; he did not like the idea of using a back passageway. Said R.F.K.: "It's all right." So they went directly behind the speaker's platform through a gold curtain toward a serving kitchen (see diagram) that led to the press room. The Senator walked amid a clutch of aides, hotel employees and newsmen, with Ethel a few yards behind. This route took him through a swinging door and into the hot, malodorous, corridorlike chamber that...
...industries some $6 billion in lost production. Much of that amount could be made up by accelerated output in the months ahead, but the loss of exports and the flight of francs had already forced the government to spend $307 million of its $6 billion in cash and gold reserves. As a result, for the first time since 1959, the French drew $745 million from the International Monetary Fund to help tide the country over the present crisis...
...much, but then, as Koppelman says, "We really weren't that good as songwriters." After a while, they prudently turned to publishing other composers' songs, and eventually went on to produce recordings of those songs. Last week, after having turned out a string of 17 gold-record hits (sales of a million copies) by such performers as The Lovin' Spoonful, Bobby Darin and The Turtles, Koppelman, 28, and Rubin, 29, sold out their publishing and production enterprises to a holding company for a reported...