Word: golds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eight previous national conventions, and his staff started months ago arranging facilities for TIME people, booking rooms and, finally, producing TIME'S own directory to pivotal action centers. Still, says Bermingham, "the last few days before the convention were excruciating." Reason: typewriters are worth their weight in gold in reporter-filled Miami, but TIME'S supplier had not come through with the ordered machines. Bermingham got to work, and soon rounded up 29 typewriters. In the view of TIME writers and editors, that was a coup to match those of MacNeil and Saltonstall...
...U.S.C.'s Earl McCullouch, who gave up a chance at an Olympic gold medal (he is the world co-recordholder in the 110-meter high hurdles) to play pro football, the game was especially rewarding. McCullouch caught two TD passes. For Larry Csonka, Syracuse's 236-lb. fullback, playing against the Packers was "like being in a dream." To Green Bay he was strictly a nightmare. Trampling out 95 yds. on 18 carries, Csonka was the key man in an astonishingly successful All-Star ground attack that gained a total of 206 yds. against the toughest defensive line...
...André Le Nôtre. A special workshop with Flemish artisans was set up nearby at Maincy to execute Le Brun's tapestry designs. The chateau's 105 rooms were furnished with armchairs of Chinese plush and Persian carpets, vermilion and silver vases, crystal chandeliers and gold clocks...
Above all, the latest gold figures reflect the fact that foreign governments are no longer in such a hurry to cash in their dollars as they have been. The new confidence in the dollar has been brought about in part by continued improvement in the U.S. balance of payments position. The nation's payments deficit soared to $1.74 billion during last year's final quarter, then dropped to $606 million in the first three months of 1968. The deficit for the quarter that ended June 30, a Government official said last week, is expected to be "substantially" lower...
...names on this list, according to a BDRG spokesman, are Harvard Square merchants: Charles Chaprales, of Waltham, owner of the University Restaurant; and Benjamin A. Jacobson, of Newton, owner of Gold Coast Valeteria...