Word: silver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...economic imbalance was so bad that Communist trade delegations turned up in Australia, France and Canada to buy $362.4 million worth of food grains. Red China's export trade collapsed because of inability to make shipments. To meet commitments abroad, Peking emptied its treasury by sending to London silver bars and gold bullion, including melted-down coins from conquered Tibet. At home the time had come to look for scapegoats...
...into Hurley can only be achieved with a gutted buck on one's fender. To take care of this technicality, many trophyless hunters buy a bootleg buck for $40 or $50 from a local deerslayer, ride into town without having fired a shot. Hurley's six-block Silver Street is jammed with 56 bars, aswarm with dough-eyed girls...
Treasure Island (Sir Donald Wolfit; Wonderland). Stevenson's adventure classic takes its tone from Long John Silver, who in illustration and dramatization too often emerges as merely quaint. Sir Donald makes him properly crafty, rapacious and murderous ("Wait, is what I say, but when the time comes-kill...
...meant to represent Meru, while the city itself, surrounded by its walls and moats, stood for the earth, its mountains and its oceans. One temple had 18 high priests, 2,740 officiants, 2,202 servers, 615 dancing girls. It contained five tons of gold plate and almost as much silver...
...fill a potential political hot spot-controlling domestic gold and silver operations-the Treasury Department turned to a slight, studiously nonpartisan monetary whiz, James Dewey Daane (pronounced Dane), 43. Daane, a Phi Beta Kappa from Duke, learned his banking in 21 years with the Federal Reserve, joined the Treasury near the end of the Eisenhower years and smoothed the transition from Republican to Democratic monetary policies. As Deputy Under Secretary for Monetary Affairs, he will need all his neutrality as he copes simultaneously with demands from Western silver producers that the Treasury raise its pegged price...