Word: golds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...personal and diplomatic kudos for himself. Ike and Kishi lunched informally at the White House soon after the Premier's arrival, then drove out to Burning Tree, where Ike presented his golfing guest with a personally ordered, matched set of Ben Hogan irons and woods. Inscribed in gold on the leather bag: "To Prime Minister Kishi from President Eisenhower." At the first tee, understandably nervous with his new bag of sticks, the diminutive (5 ft. 4 in.) Premier sliced a drive into the rough, was visibly encouraged when Ike shouted "Mo ichido" (in Japanese, take another), responded with...
...biggest civic debt in Italian history ($160 million), giving his fellow townsmen spaghetti, circuses, repaved streets, and a first-class soccer team. (Mayor Lauro cheerfully forked over $200,000 to sign up one Swedish soccer star for Naples.) The Neapolitan crowds love him; opposition politicians consider him a gold-plated clown, or, in the words of one, stricken by "dynamic senility...
...forbidding Ahaggar mountains in the central Sahara, prospectors have found samples of gold, platinum, nickel, tin, chromium, asbestos, tungsten, uranium, copper, and one small diamond. But the area is separated from the nearest port by 1,400 miles of sand-swept desert trails. Admitted the French government's mining boss in Algeria, Turquet de Beauregard: "Even if we discovered a mountain of pure iron down there, it would not pay to ship it. So we have to look for very precious ores, such as platinum and uranium, which would be worth sending by plane...
Harriet saw. In Paris she staked out a claim to her private gold mine-a cosmetic cream that she claimed was invented for Madame Recamier. a premature career girl of the Napoleonic era. In due course, Harriet returned to the U.S. with her saucer of cream. It was a business triumph but a personal disaster. Along the way she had committed her daughter Margaret to the care of a frenetic novelist and proprietor of a finishing school named Blanche Willis Howard, who became The False Friend Who Poisoned Her Daughter's Mind Against Her Mother. She herself fell under...
...spout blue fumes into the mountain air. Tough, broadnosed bulldozers hungrily tear up the soil; potbellied scrapers scoop and level it; lumbering compact-ers press it down with their massive weight. Directly before the machines looms a 500-ft. hill that stood in the way of the inland-bound gold seekers of the 1840s, forced the Southern Pacific railroad and later a highway to slink humbly around its base. But it does not deter the road builders of 1957. Their rugged and powerful machines are slashing through the hill, cutting a 360-ft.-deep, 2,200-ft.-long scar...