Word: silver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...force ROTC reserve commissions took on a silver lining last night when the Pentagon verified reports that all non-ROTC reserve commissions will require three years of active duty...
...hounded endlessly, both by Promoter Tex Rickard and the public. He went to Europe to relax and was startled one day when Britain's King Edward VII stepped out of a shop in Carlsbad and accosted him. The King, who had been picking out silver foxes for a lady friend, wanted to know when he would beat Johnson. Jeffries came home, and on Oct. 29, 1909 signed to fight Li'l Arthur 45 rounds or to a finish. There was jubilation from coast to coast...
...Silver City, N. Mex. (pop. 7,000) was beginning to look like a frontier outpost. Townspeople carried guns, and a detachment of state police patrolled the streets keeping the peace. The enemy this time was a small group of moviemakers-some of whom are alleged to be Communists -filming a semi-documentary about miners. The picture, Salt of the Earth, is sponsored by the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers (ousted from the C.I.O. in 1950 for being Communist-dominated), and the cast is composed largely of Mexican-American miners and their families from the Silver City region...
...issue, according to the gun-toters: either the so-called subversive moviemakers got out of town pronto, or they would be shipped out "in black boxes." Here & there, fist fights flared; Clinton Jencks, international representative of the I.U.M.M.S.W., was twice rocked by socks in the jaw; 50 Silver City men tussled with the camera crew until state police broke it up. U.S. immigration officers arrested the feminine star of the picture, Mexican Cinemactress Rosaura Revueltas, for illegally entering...
...week's end, the air in Silver City began to clear. Cinemactress Revueltas abandoned her plan to fight deportation left voluntarily for Mexico. The movie crew completed location shooting, packed its equipment, prepared to go to California for final work on the picture. The townspeople packed their guns and the state police drove away. Silver City was through with the film-until next summer, anyway, when the city, by present plans, will be the scene of the world's first showing of Salt of the Earth...