Word: golds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Swaziland has tripled its exports (to $58 million) in the past four years by completing a new, 140-mile railroad and by attracting such faraway customers as Japan, a major buyer of the kingdom's abundant iron ore. Beneath Swaziland's lush valleys and mountains are also gold, coal and asbestos. Cattle herds dot the sloping grassland, and citrus orchards and sugarcane fields flourish. Not the least of Swaziland's assets is the stabilizing unity of the Swazi tribe, to which all the new country's citizens belong except for some 10,000 white residents...
...treating certain types of cancer by radiation, doctors implant little gold "seeds" inside the growths. The seeds are actually hollow gold beads, each containing radon gas. After two or three weeks, the radon's radioactivity is virtually gone. The harmless seeds are left in place, but a few of them may be sloughed off by the body. At Manhattan's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, a nurse saved the seeds sloughed off by the tumor and had the salvaged gold made into a ring for her boy friend. He developed red patches on his finger. Memorial...
Other used seeds have been melted down and the salvaged gold has found its way into rings. In the Journal of the A.M.A., two doctors in northern New York report cancer-type changes caused by a radioactive ring. When a man had a cameo ring remodeled in 1946, the jeweler inserted a piece of "new" gold. After ten years, the man had so much discomfort on his left ring finger that he transferred the ring to his right hand. Eight years later, that finger also was irritated and inflamed, so he stopped wearing the ring. Too late. This year...
Last fall Britain devalued the pound, the gold crisis agitated the world-and so did the first human-heart transplant...
...world of the haves and the havenots, the real losers may be the half-haves. They are the ones who come close enough to the rainbow to count the stripes, the ones who are suckered into stretching out their arms toward the pot of gold they will never touch...