Word: silver
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...average Canadian," and to let Canada see the Queen whose full Canadian title is "Elizabeth the Second, by the grace of God of the United Kingdom, Canada and her other realms and territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith." When the Queen's silver Cornet touches down at Newfoundland's St. John's Airport this week, she will whisk into an itinerary that, for all the press of excited planning across Canada, hews to cozy informality. Banished is the usual stuffy round of honor-guard reviews, cornerstone layings, garden parties. Tarrying for only...
Dressed in white pajamas and bathrobe, Louisiana's fleshy, silver-haired Governor Earl Kemp Long received a visitor in Galveston's John Sealy Hospital last week. It was Galveston County Deputy Sheriff Gerald Leslie. "Well," cried Earl Long, "I'll be damned. Here's a Texas Ranger! At least I know the law is on my side. Sit down and let me talk to you, Ranger." The deputy told Long that he had come to serve a writ. Said Governor Long: "I'm glad to know you're helping me. Now, son, sit down...
Prophet ($16,000), a 7½ft. figure of Monel metal covered with nickel-silver by Dentist-turned-Sculptor Seymour Lipton, is both warning and challenge. "I was thinking of Isaiah," Lipton explains. "The work suggests a strident person, a gesture of stepping forward. But the work is also a challenge to the observer to become involved in a whole new language of form belonging to the present age." The U.S.'s new sculpture has indeed developed a provocative new vocabulary if not a language of form. But a vocabulary is not a work...
Lisa is only 33, and can presumably go on being sultry, cute and stylish for decades to come. But if she should ever lose her nightclub following, her energetic, silver-haired mother may point to new possibilities; at 66, Mrs. Kirk is a successful model impersonating happy, middle-aged matrons of the Serutan...
...throwing things almost as if she were fresh from a peaceful monkey house. But after her moment of glory, she was flown off to Fort Knox, Ky., where Army Dr. Thomas Davis noticed that one of the electrodes inserted under her skin, a ¾-inch-square bit of silver-plated wire mesh, had started a slight infection. It was decided to operate, using a general anesthetic, trichloroethylene...