Word: goldings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...divided over Viet Nam that it was no longer possible for the President or many of his Cabinet members to travel without the danger of a rowdy demonstration. Another summer of racial riots in the black ghettos seemed certain. The U.S. dollar was being brutally battered by foreign gold speculators. Not least among the factors affecting his decision was the unforeseen strength of Senators Robert Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy in their challenge to his renomination. So low had Johnson's popularity sunk, said one Democratic official, that last-minute surveys before the Wisconsin primary gave him a humiliating...
Shades of the gold rush. In Virginia City, Nev., prospectors jammed the land office to stake out claims near the old Comstock Lode. New find? No. Old sharpie. Word was out that Mystery Zillionaire Howard Hughes, 62, had just paid $225,000 for a 480-acre claim in the area, and one of Hughes's advisers speculated that perhaps $12 billion in gold remained buried in the nearby Sierra Nevada Mountains. The investment was peanuts compared with the gold mines Hughes has already picked up. In 15 months he has spent $125 million in the state, last month closed...
...only to pare a total of seven seconds off his best times to set records in the 100-meter, 200-meter and 400-meter freestyle and the 200-meter individual medley (breast stroke, backstroke and crawl). At last year's Pan American games in Winnipeg, he won five gold medals. The only way anybody is likely to keep his score that low in next fall's Mexico City Olympics is by scheduling events simultaneously...
Around a green-covered table in the Foresta, the clash of views was polite, if pointed. Debré, pressing for debate on the monetary system as a whole, came out formally for an increase in the official price of gold. A long silence ensued. Finally, German Economics Minister Karl Schiller registered his disagreement. Italy's Emilio Colombo sided with the Germans. The U.S.'s Fowler suggested that the real business of the meeting was the SDRs and asked that the group move briskly along in that area...
...Tune, Durrell's first novel since the Quartet ended with Clea in 1960, a neurotic, solid-gold heiress with the heart of a prostitute streaks naked into her empty ballroom and shatters its mirrored walls with a repeating shotgun. This preposterous act suggests the syndrome of identity crisis and symbolic suicide encountered only too frequently in contemporary fiction. Mirrors and prisms are novelists' standard metaphors, and Durrell has always used them well. He does so again in this devilishly clever metaphysical mystery tale. But new times demand new metaphors; except for that brief, noisy episode in the ballroom...