Word: golds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...months hard-pressed Dictator Francisco Franco has been feeding on the hope that he could somehow persuade Russia to return the $500 million in gold which the Spanish Republican government shipped off to Moscow in the early days of the civil war. When onetime Republican Finance Minister Juan Negrín died last winter in Paris, Franco came into possession of the Soviet receipts for the gold (TIME, Jan. 14), and Russia could no longer deny having got the money. But Radio Moscow last week dashed all of Franco's hopes. After depositing the money, said Radio Moscow...
...Setting. The black and fragile bits of leather that now make nests for rats in desert rock holes, or repose in battered cigarette boxes with such labels as Gold Star and Friends, are not the only puzzle pieces that need gathering and fitting together. There are also human and historical fragments from which scholars are trying to reconstruct the story of the Qumran sect itself-one of the great dramas of the Judeo-Christian tradition...
...unhappy enough to be crowned winners, and given out prizes worth $14 million, almost all donated by manufacturers in exchange for a plug on the air. Average take per queen: $4,000 in gifts, plus four dozen roses, a wardrobe and a one-day tour of Hollywood in a gold Cadillac...
...find a surface for the satellite that 1) does not absorb much solar energy, and 2) gets rid of the energy that it does absorb without becoming too hot. When the satellites came from their manufacturer, Brooks & Perkins, Inc. of Detroit, they were thin-skinned magnesium spheres plated with gold. Aluminum is better for reflecting sunlight, but since aluminum will not stick to gold, the gold had to be covered with a thin film of chromium. Aluminum will stick to chromium, but it also mixes with it and loses part of its reflecting power. So the chromium film in turn...
...Gold of Naples. Italian Director Vittorio De Sica makes high comedy of low life in Naples, and wins some superb performances from Sophia Loren, Silvana Mangano, Toto and Vittorio De Sica (TIME...