Word: silver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eggs in the house and later in the woods behind the presidential cottage. After breakfast, the grownups, dressed in their Easter finest, went to church. Afterward, the President laid the cornerstone for a new church building. A building contractor in the crowd commented on his dexterity with the silver trowel. "I used to do it on the farm," Ike explained with a grin...
...silver Constellation dropped down on London Airport one morning last week, and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles alighted from it. Like a stone in a pool, his arrival sent ripples of alarm coursing through Britain and France. Warmed by the spring sun, many British and French had somehow fallen into a hazy, hopeful dream that everything could be settled at Geneva if only nothing was done to alarm the shy Communists. To them, Dulles, with his call for "united action" before Geneva and a joint warning to Communist China, came as an insistent intruder. The jittery press talked...
Washington. Aiming point: the Lincoln Memorial. The perimeter of total destruction would include the entire District of Columbia and Arlington County, Va. (the Pentagon, National Airport), the suburbs of Chevy Chase, Bethesda, Silver Spring, Hyattsville, Alexandria...
Born. To Audie Murphy, 29, most decorated soldier of World War II, now a Hollywood cowboy (Duel at Silver Creek), and his second wife, Pamela Archer Murphy, 31: their second child, second son; in Hollywood. Name: James Shannon. Weight...
Died. Dr. John Frederic Erdmann, 90, retired Manhattan surgeon, who performed more than 20,000 operations, including chest surgery on Tenor Enrico Caruso, a secret operation (to avoid public panic during the great 1893 free-silver debate) on President Grover Cleveland for cancer of the jawbone aboard a yacht in Long Island Sound; of a coronary occlusion; in Manhattan...