Word: precious
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Platinum King. Charles Engelhard took over, the family company, Engelhard Industries, Inc., from his father in 1950 and proceeded to build it into one of the world's largest refiners of precious metals (1959 net: $3,700,000). In the last decade he has expanded his total wealth from an estimated $65 million to more than $100 million. All this has earned him a title he hates: the Platinum King...
Accompanied by 440 functionaries, diplomats, actors, athletes and jugglers, Red China's Premier Chou En-lai visited neighboring Burma last week to proclaim that "no gift in the world is more precious than people's friendship." Honored as the first recipient of Burma's jade-studded order of the "Supreme Upholder of the Glory of Great Love," Chou was in his most conciliatory mood as he exchanged papers with Burma's Premier U Nu formally ratifying the border treaty that settled the long-festering Sino-Burmese frontier dispute (TIME, Feb. 8, 1960). To seal this...
...second episode, which is interspersed with the third, the hero delivers a precious gift of soap to a soldier's wife, finds her living with another man, snatches back the soap and runs out. "Please," she cries after him, "please understand!" But he is too young...
...Angola there are only 200 Africans in high school; Mozambique boasts just 50, and has produced only one college graduate, a young African who went to Lisbon University on the proceeds of a lucky lottery ticket. For indigenas, this paucity of educational opportunity hardly eases the path toward the precious status of assimilado, which promises total equality with the whites for those who can speak Portuguese fluently and adopt European modes of life (i.e., live in a house instead of a hut, eat with a knife and fork instead of the fingers...
...staircase within the nearly four-centuries-old Trinity College Library. They enter the majestic, arched Long Room, pass along the galleries to a desk in the center, part a pair of curtains to peer into a glass-enclosed display case. They are there to see Ireland's most precious treasure, the Book of Kelts...