Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Maharaja of Jaipur put on a good show. For the first post-independence session of the All-India Congress he sponsored a rousing parade down the main streets of Jaipur city. First came three silver-spangled elephants from the princely stables (see cut), followed by seven camel warriors armed with 18th Century blunderbusses. Then came a mile-long procession of boys & girls marching to seven brass bands and gaily decked out in the hues of the Dominion of India's tricolor: green, white and orange. At the end, in a silver chariot drawn by four snow-white pedigreed bullocks...
...Roosevelt Jr.; in a plane crash; near Hong Kong. An instinctive follower of his grandfather's "doctrine of the strenuous life," Quentin* explored the Sino-Tibetan mountain country at 19, joined the Army after graduating from Harvard, was wounded in action in North Africa (where he won the Silver Star and Croix de Guerre), later saw action in Sicily, Europe, China, where he became vice president of China National Aviation Corp...
Happy Jeep. Wearing his "lucky boots" and a silver-mounted .45 automatic, Costa Rica's Provisional President José Figueres jeeped happily around inspecting his outpost troops. With him rode President-elect Otilio Ulate. The foreign threat had given Figueres' faltering junta a popularity unknown since last spring's civil...
...SUBTLE BLASPHEMIES IN SILVER-If you'd rather die than give something dull, the schizophrenic stuff we call jewelry will save your worthless life . . . Don't risk a crestfallen Christmas...
Uncertainties. Over in Sterling Hall, silver-haired little Professor Selig Perlman, 60, a top economist, is sorry to see the veterans on their way out. Says Perlman: "I liked the returned G.I.s very much; you could talk to them. They were rather fed up with particularism and intellectual isolation; they wanted to see the whole picture...