Word: silver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Silver Spring...
...good time," ordered Lyndon B. Johnson as his spouse and nine Cabinet wives left the White House on the First Lady's two-day "Landscapes and Landmarks" tour of the Old Dominion. A late arrival was Muriel Humphrey, wife of the Vice President, who managed to join the silver Trailways bus 40 minutes down the road...
Died. Lord Mowbray, 69, England's Premier Baron (his title, the country's oldest, dates back to 1283), who in 1962 invoked the rarely exercised peer's immunity to prevent his estranged wife from having him jailed for refusing to return her family heirlooms (a silver matchbox, two trays, two bowls, three swords and a wig); after a long illness; m Harrogate, Yorkshire...
...Henri Christophe, cared little for charters?black or white. He proclaimed himself King, set up a ludicrous aristocracy (including such titles as the Duke of Marmelade and Count of Limonade), and ruled as a merciless despot until 1820, when his officers revolted, and he committed suicide by firing a silver bullet into his brain...
...fact, only pleasantly robust. His stomach expands like a beautiful hyperbola. His voice is loud and clear, with a curiously nasal effect. His hair, though it has receeded, is a strikingly handsome combination of silver and gray. For a man who officially entered politics at the age of 21 in 1936 (as a delegate to the state Democratic covention) and suffered two defeats before finally winning elective office, Alfred E. Vellucci looks like he's enjoyed every minute of the game...