Word: goldings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Student Assembly's pro statement on the Engelhard issue reads. "For ten years Charles Engelhard was the single largest investor in South Africa. He amassed a quarter-billion dollar fortune in the South African gold mines, where on average three black miners die every shift. Not an absentee investor, he was the only foreigner to sit on two labor recruitment boards for the mines...
...Africa is well documented. among others, one can point to The New York Times, March 24, 1969, Dec. 24, 1969, The Star (Johannesburg), September 1970. Charles Engelhard parlayed an inheritance of $20 million into a $250 million fortune through his control of 15 per cent of the South African gold mining industry. South African gold miners earn on an average less than half the official South African poverty wage level and an average of three miners die per shift...
Throughout the controversy the administration has callously ignored the single most important party in this issue--those silenced by repression and premature death, those South African gold miners from whom Engelhard extracted his fortune. In the early 1970s students at Princeton forced their administration to honor alumnus Charles Engelhard. We must nor permit Engelhard's wealth to legitimize exploitation is South Africa. Honor should not be sold to the highest bidder. Vote yes on Question...
...explanation for the tradition of terror in California, and particularly in San Francisco, is that the area is a mecca for restless dreamers. The mark of the 1849 gold rush is still pervasive. Writes Kevin Starr in Americans and the California Dream: "The state remained, after all, a land characterized by an essential selfishness and an underlying instability, a fixation upon the quick acquisition of wealth, an impatience with the more subtle premises of human happiness." Of the 1960s, when some 1,000 people a day fled west, Joan Didion wrote in Slouching Towards Bethlehem: "Adolescents drifted from city...
...cast gold pendant was stolen Thursday from the Peabody Museum while the museum was open to the public, Saul L. Chafin, chief of University Police said yesterday...