Word: golds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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more than $1 million worth of gold had disappeared from the U.S. Assay Office, a fortress-like building in lower Manhattan where some 2 million oz. of gold are refined every year. Treasury officials figured that the gold rush took place some time between 1973 and 1977 but could not be more specific because of "significant irregularities" in the office's accounting procedures...
...months, federal agents questioned the office's 85 employees and combed the building for clues. They determined that much of the missing gold might have been lost during the refining process-some of it undoubtedly went up the chimney in smoke-but they could not rule out the possibility of theft. With 4,100 oz. of gold still missing, the department has now announced that the agents had ended their investigation. Said a spokesman: "The bottom line is that they just could not tell what happened...
...Malley further enraged New York fans by persuading Giants Owner Horace Stoneham to move his team from Manhattan to San Francisco. The era of rootless ball clubs began. In the West the Dodgers proved a gold mine and last season drew more than 3 million fans-a milestone in baseball history...
...women's volleyball team established itself as a contender for gold or silver in 1980. After defeating the Ukraine volleyballers and upsetting the potent Moscow squad, the American women narrowly lost a grueling, five-game match to the Russian Federation, the Soviet national team. The American women live and practice together six days a week in Colorado Springs, under the auspices of the newly invigorated U.S. Volleyball Association. Mostly in their mid-20s, they have interrupted college, romances and careers to serve and spike. Said Janet Baier, 24, an aspiring cellist from St. Louis: "I can play the cello...
...Feud and What's My Line?, which ran for 17½ years; following heart surgery; in New York City. In addition to employing 90 television researchers in the search for convincing impostors for To Tell the Truth and offbeat confessors for I've Got a Secret, the "Gold Dust Twins" built a communications empire that once included 17 newspapers...