Word: goldings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hadn't thought that she was involved in international high finance, yet when Figure Skater Peggy Fleming, 19, met a smiling President Johnson in the White House Rose Garden, he hailed her as "someone who has helped us with the gold drain." Peggy had, indeed, as the only American to bring home an Olympic gold medal from Grenoble. And now a properly appreciative L.B.J. added a decoration of his own, reaching up to pluck a magnolia blossom from a tree and pinning it on Peggy's dress...
...group of the elite. In France, most brokers do not even advertise-and the first one who does so aggressively may get on to quite a good thing. Still fearful of invasion and deflation, peasants tend to distrust securities, put their money in the mattress and their faith in gold, which they hoard and bury-a complete waste of capital. But proper marketing techniques can lure it out. Europe had hardly any mutual funds until an expatriate from Brooklyn, Bernie Cornfeld, started marketing them a dozen years ago. His Investors Overseas Services now raise more than...
...master race. Closeups caught the Führer clucking with pleasure as his Aryans competed in the qualifying heats against the U.S. team with its Negro stars. But then in the finals, as Owens, the Alabama sharecropper's son, won one, two, three and finally four gold medals, the camera caught Hitler's face as he smoldered with rage. He would not shake hands with the winner. Owens, now a fit 54 and in public relations, narrated his own story with commendable understatement. Revisiting the empty old Berlin Olympic Stadium 32 years later, he declared that...
Because the U.S. balance of payments problem is crucial to the gold crisis and because U.S. tourists abroad spend $2 billion more a year than foreign visitors spend here, the Administration has urged a tax on travel outside the Western Hemisphere. The tourist-class wanderer this summer may find his trip to Europe costing an unexpected $100 in taxes. And if the gold crisis flares again, he may find that foreign hotels and banks will-as they did two weeks ago-refuse to accept his dollars or cash his traveler's checks until they feel more confident about...
...where the corpse was and vice versa. The macabre jocularity involves such bits of business as tossing the dead mother's dentures across the room as casually as a pack of cigarettes. All of this demands the split-second timing of a Feydeau farce, and unfortunately Director Derek Gold-by is no Mike Nichols...