Word: golds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...protesters chanted throughout Bok's speech on "Excellence in Government." Following the end of the official ceremony, Mark Smith '72-4 gave another moving speech, protesting the naming of the school's library for the late Charles W. Engelhard, an industrialist who made his fortune on South African gold mining interests...
...price of gold hit record highs in both of Europe's major bullion markets, in a typical reaction to the dollar's value...
...York Times," will deliver the sermon during this Sunday's Memorial Church service. His topic will be "Longevity of Life." The Peter Gomes Solidarity Committee has announced plans to demonstrate outside the church to protest the passing over of Rev. Gomes, as well as Rabbi Ben Zion Gold, in the papal selection process...
...more than 400 student demonstrators forcefully pointed out at the dedication ceremonies, the Kennedy School's decision to name its Public Affairs Library after Charles W. Engelhard -- a notorious financial supporter, and beneficiary, of the brutal gold trade in South Africa -- was a startling affront to all those who had hoped the University was sincere in its oft-stated concern for the oppressed in South Africa. School administrators, in accepting a $1 million donation from the Engelhard Foundation, clearly exhibited the same type of amoral, heartlessly opportunistic thinking that characterizes the worst decision-making in government today -- the type...
DIED. Ralph Metcalfe, 68, four-term black Congressman from Chicago's South Side and former champion sprinter who won a 1936 Olympic gold medal with Jesse Owens in the 400-meter relay; of a heart attack; in Chicago. A protege of Mayor Richard Daley's, Metcalfe broke with his mentor in 1972 after complaining of police brutality toward Chicago's blacks, but he continued to win re-election handily without machine support...