Word: golds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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First Zach gets a job in the gold mines--dehumanizing experience number one. Soon he loses that job, and in rapid succession he loses a few others--houseboy, gas station attendant, waiter, road crew--when the white employers become displeased with him. These contacts with Afrikaaners and Britishers--who insist on being called "Boss" or something equally demeaning--are typified in this encounter with the shrewish woman who hires, then summarily fires, Zach as her houseboy...
...headed Khnum, to the great goddess Isis and her son, the falcon-headed Horus. Two carved lions guard an entrance, and the god Heh kneels to support the heavens as represented on the ceiling. There stylized vultures soar across a sky once painted bright blue and studded with gold stars. The doorway itself is flanked by two goddesses represented as crowned cobras twining around the heraldic plants of Egypt...
...gave it steeper sides, and built so many that there are actually more surviving pyramids in Nubia than in Egypt. A 19th century Italian named Giuseppe Ferlini knocked the top off the pyramid tomb of Queen Amanishaketo (10 B.C.-A.D. 1) and found a rich treasure trove of gold objects (so encouraged, he knocked the tops off every other convenient pyramid but found no other treasure). Brooklyn has a display of intricately designed rings and armlets from Ferlini's find. As a series of faience pendants shows, Nubia's goddesses were almost proudly naked, sprouting downturned wings and sporting...
Four years ago he surprised the experts by leading the U.S. Equestrian Team to a world championship at Burghley, England, and winning for himself a gold medal. Now Bruce Davidson, 28, cool, aristocratic, and every lean inch a horseman, prepared under a merciless Kentucky sun to defend his title against the best riders in his dangerous and specialized sport...
...statistician, Burgess worked as a banker in New York for more than 30 years, first at the Federal Reserve, then at National City (now Citibank), before joining the Treasury in 1953. As Under Secretary for Monetary Affairs, he favored tight money policies, a balanced national budget and the gold standard. He resigned in 1957 when appointed NATO Ambassador, serving until...