Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...place calls to friends in the provinces than for President Nixon to reach the astronauts on the moon. It took no time whatever, though, for new bits of Franglais to crop up, such as "Voilá la go." Trader Vic's restaurants around the U.S. and in London served a tiny American flag in every cocktail; Harolds Club in Reno offered Moonshots of vodka and apple juice served in a glass shaped like Apollo's command and service module...
...when the U.S. persuaded central bankers to join a boycott. That move was part of a power play intended to blunt South Africa's campaign for an increase in the price of gold. U.S. officials hoped to force South Africa to dump its gold on free markets in London and Switzerland and thus drive the free-market price down to the $35-per-ounce level that prevails in deals between governments. The boycott apparently had little effect. South Africa has obviously not been dumping gold on the free markets, because prices in London and Switzerland have remained about...
...gold, Ball reports, has been flown to Switzerland and bought by three banks: Credit Suisse, Union Bank and Swiss Bank Corp. Motivated by pride and profit, the three banks formed a syndicate a year ago and began to buy newly mined South African gold. They wanted Zurich to challenge London's position as the leading gold market, and they also figured to sell the gold at a lucrative markup. By carefully controlling their marketing practices, they could keep the free-market price from becoming depressed. They sold the gold to industrial users, private hoarders and speculators-but only when...
...with a metal snaffle across the instep and a price tag from $31 to $49, has become one of those subtleties of dress that are supposed to separate the Main Line from the wrong side of the tracks. Enriched by demand for such symbols, Gucci has opened branches in London, Paris, Manhattan, Palm Beach and Beverly Hills. Last year the company increased its assets to an estimated $28 million...
Sound of Whimpering. The new novel finds her arrived from Zambesia, lugging her suitcase around London in a superexistential funk. When her second marriage collapsed in the previous volume, she had promised herself, "When I get to England, I'll find a man I can really be married...