Word: golds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cleary '58, teamed up in both the 1956 and 1960 Olympics. In the 1960 games the American team swept past the powerful Canadian and Russian teams to face Czechoslovakia in the finals. Trailing 4-3 going into the final period, the Americans exploded for six goals to win the gold medal, 9-4. The Clearys ended their competitive careers in style, accounting for three goals and five assists in that final game...
...delight of 300 enthusiastic onlookers, Master Charles W. Dunn yesterday stood in the Quincy House courtyard, waved the gold-headed cane of former Harvard President Josiah Quincy in the air three times, and proclaimed the House's deliverance "from the malevolence of all banshees, bogles, and kindred evil spirits...
...rest of the cast is, well, from England. Hopefully they had the foresight to buy excursion-fare plane tickets, because, to use the play's own idiom, thar' ain't no gold in these here hills...
Technically Insolvent. The aid package involves a fundamental if delicately controlled change in the world's intricate monetary system. Other nations hold pounds and dollars, along with gold, as reserves to help underpin the value of their own currencies, using them to bankroll trade and settle international accounts. British pounds constitute the main reserve asset for the 66-member sterling area, which consists of British dependencies and Commonwealth members (except Canada), plus Ireland, several Arab and a few Asian states. When Britain devalued the pound last November, the value of these other countries' reserves fell 14.3% overnight...
Fearful of a second devaluation, many sterling-area countries this year have been busily selling off large amounts of pounds. As a result, Britain has been forced to dip into its own gold and foreign currencies to buy sterling in order to keep the pound from falling too far below its $2.40 official price in foreign exchange markets. By midyear, British reserves had shrunk to $2.7 billion, less than half the amount of pounds held by individuals and central banks in the sterling bloc alone. With huge liabilities to many other countries as well, Britain was technically insolvent...