Word: golds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...town, amid the mangoes, palms and cassia trees of the European quarter, far fewer white citizens were similarly lined up. Belgian gradualism was making another cautious move forward, permitting the first elections-for either whites or blacks-to be held in Belgium's fabulously rich (cobalt, uranium, copper, gold) and only colony...
...testify our determination to maintain civil liberty and democracy," he cried. Retorted a government spokesman: "The concern of the leader of the opposition merely betrays his guilty conscience because he was and has been the leader of those who perpetrated atrocities in Ashanti"-the wealthy (cocoa and gold) territory that is the heartland of Nkrumah's opposition. "Let me tell the House this bill is being introduced purposely because of the Ashanti," blurted another government spokesman...
Born. To Bobby Joe Morrow, 22, sprinter who won three Gold Medals in the 1956 Olympics and earned SPORTS ILLUSTRATED'S Sportsman of the Year Award, and Jo Ann Strickland Morrow, 22: twins, their first children; in Abilene, Texas. Names: Ron Floyd and Viki Jo. Weights...
...hotels and barrooms of Anchorage, Alaska, oilmen from 25 U.S. companies waited anxiously last week for word from Washington, D.C. that would start the greatest northern land rush since the Klondike gold strike. They had swarmed to Anchorage by the score this fall after Richfield Oil Corp. made Alaska's first big oil find in the nearby Kenai national game preserve (see map). So promising was the well (900 bbl. a day) that the companies are prepared to sink $100 million into the search for more. If they are just moderately successful, they will invest another $200 million...
...Harry Oppenheimer, 49, was elected chairman of the boards of South Africa's De Beers Consolidated Mines, Ltd. (diamond), Anglo American Corp. (gold) and 14 other subsidiary companies to replace his father, Sir Ernest Oppenheimer, who died a fortnight ago (TIME, Dec. 9). A dark-mustached carbon copy of Sir Ernest, "Young Harry" learned the diamond business long before he went to Oxford to finish his education in 1931. He captained a company of Britain's Desert Rats against Rommel's troops in World War II, returned to Johannesburg in 1944 to take up a multitude...