Word: golds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Orators and newspapers sang of Moslem brotherhood and the glory of the nation as Pakistan celebrated its second birthday as a republic. Thousands lined Karachi's streets last week to cheer as President Iskander Mirza, surrounded by his bodyguard of Lancers in uniforms of scarlet, green and gold, drove by in his state coach to preside at a parade of Pakistan's military might, backed by contingents from fellow Baghdad Pact Members Iran, Iraq and Turkey. But beneath the brave fagade, Pakistan was a sick and sad nation...
...present colossus. The logistics of its operation, he soon found, were staggering. The 40-man kitchen staff is geared to turn out 1,700 meals (broiled sirloins, Chinese combination plates) in half an hour. To ferry these around, Maksik employs roughly 100 waiters (in black cutaways and black-and-gold-striped waistcoats), 40 busboys and seven captains. Counting his bartenders, stagehands and bandsmen, Maksik has 275 people on his staff at the height of the season, and a weekly payroll of $25,000. His towel bill alone runs to $1,200 a week...
...Gold filter...
...Gold straight...
Author Ferber has been to Alaska four times, and must have done a lot of research, too: her book is very knowing about such matters as parkas, salmon fishing and Gold Rush prostitutes. She also makes an emotional and just plea for Alaskan statehood. But decades of panning fictional gold (Show Boat, Saratoga Trunk) have taught canny Prospector Ferber where to find the pay lode. Her heroine, Christine Storm, is beautiful enough to still the growl of a Malemute, so passionate about her native Alaska that she would not swap a fox parka for an autumn-haze mink. Grandpa Kennedy...