Word: silver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week, Jack Putnam, foreman of nearby Buzzard Ranch, rode his horse up Ferris Mountain. LeMasurier's radio-TV company in Duluth had offered a $2,500 reward for anyone who located the plane, and Putnam had a hunch. Late in the morning he spotted a tiny speck of silver high on the mountainside. He quickly reported his find, and an evacuation party was soon puffing its way up the rocky slope. Closing the summit, they heard a faint cry, at first thought it was an echo. Then they found Dorothy LeMasurier on a snowbank. "I don't believe...
Gently as a gnat touching meringue, a blue-and-silver three-seat helicopter last week eased down onto a yellow marker on the White House lawn. Correspondents duly noted the executive mansion's, first helicopter landing.* But the practice descent marked something else as well. Air Pioneer Dwight Eisenhower was the first President to use a light plane (the twin-engined Aero-Commander 560) in short hops, e.g., to and from his Gettysburg farm. Now Ike is ready to employ the air age's newest child in civil-defense evacuation and in flights of convenience over Washington...
Soak the Rich. Having already borrowed the legal limit from the Bank of France and hoping to borrow more to offset the government deficit, Mollet had encountered Bank of France Governor Wilfrid Baumgartner, conscientious keeper of the country's precious bullion reserves. Said smooth, silver-haired Baumgartner: "I want collateral-taxes. And quickly." Mollet's answer: a soak-the-rich tax program that hit corporation earnings, dividends and inventories, added four francs per liter...
...Guadalcanal Barney holds a strong point alone against hundreds of Japanese, kills 22 of them and saves the life of a wounded buddy. His reward: the Silver Star and a dose of malignant malaria. For the skull-shattering headaches that accompany the first bouts of fever, medics prescribe morphine; and by the time the malaria appears to be gone, so is Barney's moral resistance. He is an abject addict. But why? The script states explicitly the physiological basis of his addiction, but about the psychological causes it can only hem and haw: "The roar of the crowd...
...Ames Awards will be presented on Class Day to Tatsuo Arima '57, and Peter K. Gunness '57. The awards, silver cups, are named for Richard Glover Ames '34 and Henry Russell Ames '38, who drowned in 1935 off Newfoundland while attempting to rescue their father during a transatlantic sailing race. The awards are given to two seniors "who have shown energy in helping themselves and who exhibit as well the sterling character and inspiring leadership that were the qualities of Richard and Henry Ames." Arima is from Adams House and Tokyo, and Gunness is from Winthrop House and Fargo...