Word: goldings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...attracting the usual motley con men and drifters, losers and locos. The trucks barreling between the town and the fields rarely stop when they hit a pedestrian. About one pedestrian is killed each night, often a bewildered campesino still unable to grasp the rapid changes. Whores flash their gold-toothed smiles while cruising the wide boulevards, which have been newly rebuilt with pink paving stone. Rifle-toting policemen patrol the downtown banking area because, as one shopkeeper laments, "this is the season of the rateros [thieves], and they know this is a money town now." The better bars echo with...
Unmoved, Begin flew to the Norwegian capital late last week to receive his commemorative gold medal from Mrs. Aage Lionaes, head of the peace prize committee, in the high-walled medieval Akershus. In his acceptance speech, Begin quoted the prophets Isaiah and Micah ("And they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. . ."). He then rhetorically posed an issue that bedevils everyone concerned with the 30-year-old Middle East struggle: "not whether, but when this vision [of peace] will become a reality." Begin did not give a definite answer. Instead, he acknowledged an intellectual debt...
Only 9% of all meetings draw more than 1,000 registrants, and most conventions are small enough to fit in the Gold Room of your local Holiday...
...back in. A country can do this by buying or selling its own currency on international markets. If it needs money to do this kind of buying, it can borrow from a new fund. To set up the fund, each member country will contribute about 20% of its gold and dollar reserves, or a total of up to $32 billion. The fund will be denominated not in marks, francs or dollars but in the new European Currency Units-ecus...
...brochure is slim, almost discreet, yet it has caused more anger in the art world than any book in recent memory. In gold capitals on a burgundy ground, its cover announces "The Nelson Rockefeller Collection." Inside it resembles-and is-a mail-order catalogue, with scores of lavishly shot objects. These range from an 18th century Chinese porcelain teapot stand ($65) to Age of Bronze, a nude youth by Rodin, at $7,500. Everything comes from Rockefeller's private collection-one of the most celebrated, public or private, in America. But everything is imitation. The Modigliani you can have...