Word: goldings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first time in four years, contracts for future delivery of wheat traded on the Chicago Board of Trade have exceeded $4 per bu.-a psychological mark that is as important to grain traders as the $300-an-ounce level is to dealers in gold. Though prices dipped somewhat last week, contracts for wheat and some grains to be delivered in July rose to yearly highs during June. At their peak, contracts for wheat were up to $4.86 per bu., vs. $3.23 for the same period last year. Corn, the major livestock feed, jumped to $3.17 per bu., up from...
...Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, Drs. Daniel Wallace, James Klinenberg and Dennis Goldfinger worked with twelve patients with severe rheumatoid arthritis, for whom medications, including gold and penicillamine, provided no relief. They removed either plasma (a process dubbed plasmapheresis) or the white blood cells called lymphocytes and plasma (lymphoplasmapheresis) in 20 sessions over eleven weeks...
...Good as Gold, Heller...
...full of challenge and low-slung, bemused carnality. "When the world is dead, I'm gonna make the bed/ With the hotel chambermaid ... Gonna shut the bellboy out tonight" runs one of his earlier odes to one-stop sex. Many of his best tunes, like Fool's Gold, portray quite another character entirely, a knight-errant on a lonely and probably hopeless quest for a shopworn Grail: "I'm a fool, so I'm told/ I get left in the cold/ 'Cause I would search the world/ For that fool's gold...
...into a celebration, in the sense that whatever it is, you can at least sing about it. That's what rock 'n' roll is anyway-a celebration." A large part of what it is, anyhow. And as a celebrator, as a seeker after fool's gold and as a straight-ahead rocker, Graham Parker makes the kind of music that keeps everybody honest...