Word: golds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When the gold ribbon and Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor is draped around his neck this week. General Charles de Gaulle will formally become President of France for the next seven years. Only then will De Gaulle officially name his successor as Premier. But, noting that would-be Cabinet ministers were all beating a path to the same office. Paris pundits were sure that the job would go to short (5 ft. 5 in.), elegant Justice Minister Michel Debr...
...Believe It?" With all that gold out front, she said, why should the servants live in squalor in the back? Harking back to the days when she triumphantly introduced cold running water into the servants' quarters of the U.S. embassy in Argentina, she demanded bigger rooms, toilets and even balconies, instead of the sparse quarters that Europeans customarily provide for their help in India. "Can you believe it?" said she. "They weren't even going to have chimneys for their stoves." Harriet Bunker's crusade cost an extra $250,000, probably delayed the completion of the building...
...Communist Boss Walter Ulbricht is a pirate whose wooden leg, watered by vodka, has taken root in a Red army helmet. The caption: "Forward into 1959." Tarantel's description of East Germany's Defense Minister Heinz Kessler: "Third German to desert on the Russian front." Lead v. Gold. The man who puts the sting into Tarantel is a dapper, driving Berliner who goes by the name of Heinrich Baer. Baer has reason to hate the Communists. As a Wehrmacht corporal, he fought on the Russian front. After the war the Soviets tossed him into an internment camp...
Surrounded by luxuriant potted philodendron and inspired by the framed motto "Printer's lead has changed the world more than gold," Editor-Publisher Baer cooks up his Bratwurst-heavy humor in offices just two rubble-strewn blocks from the headquarters of East Berlin's government. In addition to Tarantel, Baer puts out a daily, satiric cartoon-and-text press service for some 800 subscribers in the West...
...Cairo Museum the small boy leaned over a case. The label said that it contained ten 14-lb. gold bars, dating from the Middle Kingdom and considered to be the world's first gold money. As bored small boys will, he began to count. There were only eight...