Word: golds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...able, hard-driving President Ramon Magsaysay (TIME, March 25, 1957), amiable, luxury-loving Carlos Garcia and his friends have done much to diminish the luster of the Philippines as Asia's democratic showcase. A costly industrialization program, crop failures, fluctuating export prices, corruption and administration ineptitude have caused gold and dollar reserves to sink to a scant $100 million. (The nation's trade deficit last year was $120 million.) While the fat cats of the Garcia administration whoop it up at posh Manila gambling joints, 1,360,000 Filipinos (out of a labor force...
Though the four members of the Mali Federation will retain control of their own economies, they will have a common language (French), flag (red, black and gold), federal government (two ministers from each state plus a Parliament of 48 assemblymen), and will remain in De Gaulle's new French Community...
...Gold Coast...
There will be "no Gold Coast" in the Yard, Frank H. White '55, assistant Dean of Freshmen, noted, due to the single rent scale. "We will have greatly increased flexibility in assigning rooms, since we will not have to try and fit financial need and suite price...
...Music, first of four NBC shows this season, tastefully allowed top artists to perform without interruption, even dispensed with an M.C. The cast: Actor Maurice Evans narrating for the uncanny Baird puppets (TIME, Dec. 29), Opera Star Renata Tebaldi (two exciting arias from Madame Butterfly), the piano team of Gold and Fizdale and members of the New York City Ballet. Warmest, most memorable part of the show: Singer Harry Belafonte's spellbinding finale. In a full-throated 18 minutes of folk songs, Belafonte proved once again that he is exactly as advertised: the most compelling balladeer...