Word: silver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kenyatta's seven-year sentence to "hard labor" is being spent as cook to six other Mau Mau leaders, and with a year off for good behavior, he is scheduled to be freed next month. Last week Kenyatta appeared in court in dapper leather jacket and carrying a silver-embossed ebony cane that was a gift of his followers. Whistling through a hole in his front teeth, he testified that he had never given anyone the Mau Mau oath. On the contrary, he had tried to stop the Mau Mau, but his own arrest had unleashed the bloody uprisings...
...lasting a week or longer, have become an accepted ritual for the high-powered, high-priced organization man (TIME, Jan. 21. 1957), and one thing they have turned up is that many an executive in good physical trim has a headful of emotional problems. Last week Connecticut's Silver Hill Foundation announced that it is inviting corporations to send executives in for a six-day emotional checkup...
Psychiatrist William B. Terhune, 65, who started the foundation 25 years ago, insists on calling his plant a "unit"-he is equally opposed to such "emotionally charged'' words as sanatorium, hospital and institution. Two miles out of New Canaan, its 50 acres bisected by the Silver Mine River, it looks like any New England resort hotel. It has no barred windows or guards, no locked doors for its capacity (usually filled) of 60 patients. Among its fulltime staff of 75, the seven doctors and four registered nurses never wear white coats. The aim: gracious country living without country...
...They, too, were divorced after the war, but still fond of the diplomatic high life, Maggie Biddle set up a Paris salon just off the fashionable Boulevard St. Germain. The 18th century mansion was beautifully furnished, its walls hung with Renoirs, Utrillos, Constables and Gauguins; its guests dined off silver plates dipped in gold. Some of the guests: Dwight and Mamie Eisenhower, General Alfred Gruenther, Papal Legate Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli (now Pope John XXIII), the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands, Cardinal Spellman, Bernard Baruch, and practically every noted French politician, artist or writer...
...meet was entirely anticlimactic compared with the deeply moving half-time ceremony in which both retiring coaches--the Crimson's Hal Ulen and the Elis' Bob Kiphuth--exchanged silver trophies and words of praise...