Word: goldings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WHAT tales of sleuth and intrigue, crime and espionage once lurked the quiet streets of Cambridge. Now forgotten, vestigially commemmorated by half-hearted panty-raids and defiant cross-walk-ins, the grand days of Harvard pranks seem relegated to history along with the Gold Coast...
...festive an occasion as we've had in a long time." Students poured into Harvard Square brandishing banners proclaiming GROPIUS FOR PRESIDENT and THERE'S HOPE WITH GROPE. Orange, green and magenta Gropius buttons blossomed on lapels, and one admirer wrapped himself up in a flame-and-gold package as a "present to Mr. Gropius." Harvard's favorite-son candidate, Architect Walter Gropius, had just returned from an 85th-birthday visit to his native Germany, and his disciples in Cambridge were not to be outdone in their esteem. Said Gropius, touched: "This is the grand finale...
...Gold W, encircled, on the back...
Black Servant, Brynlimah, Black Prince, Black Gold, Co-Educator, Equipoise, Dark Star, Dark Secret, and-that tourist!-Epinard, Faireno, Kelso, Gallahadion, Jim Dandy, Gallant Fox, Top Flight, Whichone, And one we need not call by name, the get Of Fair Play from Mahubah; and Regret, Noor, Sergeant Byrne, Ponder, and Petrotude, Miss Merriment, My Lovely, Singing Wood (Bay colt, by Royal Minstrel out of Glade), Cochise, Count Fleet, King Saxon, Cavalcade, Three fillies, Sorrow and Song and Rust-remember?-And Scarlet Oak, Right Royal, and Red Ember, Nashua, Swaps, and Sting, and Twenty Grand, Wise Counsellor, Whirlaway, and Yellow Hand...
Testing the Tiers. In the renewed flurry of gold speculation prompted by France's political crisis, the free-market price of the metal rose to a new high of $42.60 per oz. in London last week. That brought out enough sellers to push the price back down to $41.75 at week's end. The drop eased concern that the speculators might wreck the two-tier system of gold prices that has unhitched the gold market from the $35-per-oz. gold price for monetary reserves. Still, the system's durability depends chiefly on how fast...