Word: goldings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sweeping into the Air France storeroom at Los Angeles International Airport, U.S. Customs agents recently seized $50,000 in gold and 15 tons of merchandise, mostly small shipments of videocassette recorders, lawn chairs, cameras and even a video-game system. The intended destination: Viet Nam, which since 1975 has been on the U.S. embargo list for all but humanitarian goods. Yet no one was arrested. The raid, said a Customs spokesman, was meant only to "send a message to those who would blatantly violate...
...Olympic gold medalist skater Brian Boitano and U.S. silver medalist Paul Wylie '90-91 dazzled 3200 fans last night at the 19th annual "Evening With Champions" benefit...
...best forgotten. No one likes to see someone as successful and privileged as Washburn fall into an unspeakably ugly situation. This man had everything going for him. He was the scion of a prominent Boston family, a member of Harvard's Class of 1964, a coxswain of a gold medal-winning Olympic crew team, and a respected coach at a prestigious preparatory school as well as Harvard. What more could a man ask of his society? Washburn asked for and received dispensation from its most basic rules...
...medieval alchemists who tried to turn base metals into gold had the right idea, but they may have set their sights too low. Using modern techniques, scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory have accomplished an even more amazing transformation: they have turned sewage gas into diamonds...
...Spanish conquistadores who fell upon Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital, in 1520 came to establish the old order in the New World. They came as agents of the King and God. They also came in search of gold, and they came without women. Just as Mexico City was constructed on the ruins of Tenochtitlan, the new societies throughout Hispanic America sprang from the loins of the defeated Aztecs, Mayas and Incas. Nearly a century later, English settlers arrived in North America for different reasons. Accompanied by their families and not haunted by visions of gold, they sought less to conquer than...