Word: silver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Obviously glum about the defeat in Indo-China, John Foster Dulles looked into the future and thought that he saw a silver lining in SEATO. Said he: "If the free nations which have a stake in this area will now work together to avail of present opportunities in the light of past experience, then the loss of the present may lead to the gain of the future...
...surplus property. Included in the lot: 67 tons of obsolete marksmanship medals and parachutists' insignia listed by the Air Force brass as "brass." Bidding started at 5? a lb., and suddenly began to rise. Word was circulating through the crowd: instead of being brass, the medals were silver. In a flash, bids rose to $1.90 a lb., later soared to $4.* Next day, the Air Materiel Command blushingly admitted an "administrative error," canceled the silver sales under a regulation prohibiting the Air Force from selling gold or silver as surplus property...
...margin of 3,806 California votes. It was a time of gathering tension, and because of trouble on the Mexican border, the Eisenhower-Doud wedding was held four months earlier than had been planned. The bridegroom, just promoted to first lieutenant, didn't have time to get new silver bars for his uniform on his wedding...
Amateur Spirit. In Liedekerke, Belgium, the Silver Post Anglers' Club held a lottery to distribute $100 in prizes after the 125 competitors in a fishing contest failed to catch anything...
...furious, close work by a small group; they play mostly original exercises with such titles as Ergo, Bockhanal and Pro Defunctus. Another disk, Chet Baker Sings, has eight old standards, e.g., But Not for Me, The Thrill Is Gone, I Get Along Without You Very Well, Look for the Silver Lining, crooned by Baker in a light, untrained voice that nevertheless has a moving quality. His soft, appealing trumpet is heard...