Word: silver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This called for a scapegoat, and there was one handy: National Committeeman Wright Francis Morrow, the silver-haired, wealthy Houston attorney who, arm in arm with Shivers, helped guide the rebellion of '52. Morrow was as far out of favor as Shivers; for two years the national committee had steadfastly denied him a seat...
...laughs in a masochistic spectacle of eating crow and sadly cackling over the original egg he laid. Muttered a disconsolate Dunesman: "He laid another egg. There weren't enough clients to pay for the lights." Rejoined Cox: "Gosh!" He soon learned that even eggs can have a silver lining. His hastily hired replacement, Cinecomedian Mickey (The Atomic Kid) Rooney, showed up, took one look at mild-mannered Wally Cox, signed him up for a forthcoming Rooney Enterprises movie, Gentleman's Gentleman. The paradoxical script calls for Rooney to play hero to Cox's valet...
Then the President strode out of the studio to his car, and was driven out past the Potomac to Washington's National Airport with Mrs. Eisenhower and their son, Major John, who was going to Geneva as his father's aide. From the roadside by the silver river, as the President's car sped by, there came a flurry of applause and cheers...
...tower, 160 feet high, loomed last week above the trees of Paris' Park St. Cloud, looking like a giant Tinkertoy sparkling in the sun. The tower is made of steel tubes, supporting scattered metal plaques colored red, blue, yellow, orange, brown and silver. Part of an international building show, it is meant to dramatize the possibility of a new kind of monumental sculpture...
...SILVER BATTLE is brewing in the Senate over a bill to repeal the Government's silver-purchase law. Under the law, the Treasury must buy U.S.-mined silver at a fixed price of 90.14? an oz. Silver-users are backing a bill, introduced by Rhode Island's Senator Theodore Green, to eliminate silver price supports, thus drop the price, but western Senators are fighting tooth and nail to kill the idea...