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...Army as a paratrooper and later became a senior intelligence officer in the Office of Strategic Services, the forerunner of the CIA. After the war, he helped launch an exchange firm in New York that rapidly expanded and eventually had 70 currency outlets throughout the world. In the gold-rush days of the late '70s, Deak & Co. was handling 20% of U.S. retail gold sales...
...Mammoth Hunters continues the best-selling adventures of Ayla, the Cro-Magnon sexpot with the brain of gold. Having said goodbye to the Neanderthals who raised her (The Clan of the Cave Bear), and having met the blond hunk Jondalar (The Valley of Horses), the queen of the ice age finds it hard to be both beautiful and brilliant. After a hard day as animal trainer, physician, fire maker and slingshot instructor, Ayla must decide whom to choose for "a turn in the furs." Should it be dependable Jondalar or stylish Ranec, the romantic, dark-skinned artist who actually asks...
...option the Soviets had for raising money was to sell off some of their gold reserves, estimated to be worth $25 billion. But South Africa, whose loans have been cut off by international bankers, is already selling large amounts of gold to stay afloat. Moscow feared that putting even more gold on the market would cause the price to plunge...
...design by French Sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi was raised 305 ft. to its perch in Liberty's right hand, overlooking New York Harbor. Constructed by a team of artisans from Les Métalliers Champenois of Reims, France, the 15-ft. flame is gilded with 24-karat gold leaf. During the ceremony, Regional National Park Director Herbert Cables said that the new torch would "shine more brightly than ever." Indeed, it shall. New lights will illuminate the flame when President Reagan kicks off the statue's 100th birthday celebration on July...
Young black militants, some bearing the green, gold and black colors of the outlawed African National Congress, stood shoulder to shoulder with conservatively dressed white matrons inside St. John's Methodist Church in a comfort able all-white neighborhood of Port Elizabeth. Together they sang freedom songs and prayed for a more peaceful future. For black and white South Africans, it was an unusual display of racial harmony. The occasion: the funeral of Molly Blackburn, a leading white antiapartheid activist who was killed in an automobile crash...