Word: silver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Silver Mississippi--Closed Society...
Despite its carnival air, the great silver-grey rock is still first and foremost the world's most impregnable natural fortress - one that might have been designed for the nuclear age. It is manned by 1,000 men of the Royal Air Force, some 700 Royal Navy personnel, and two companies of British soldiers. The troops, men from the Middlesex Regiment, provide a colorful guard for the governor, train Gibraltar's draftees, and keep ready to support the island's civil authorities in any emergency that might arise. The limestone Rock is a rabbit warren of caverns...
Last year a couple of cat burglars named Chuck McKinley and Dennis Ralston sneaked off with Australia's prize silver: the Davis Cup. The mug had been in the family for most of 13 years, and the Aussies did not take the abduction kindly. So off to Cleveland last week trotted two of Australia's finest: Roy Emerson, the world's No. 1-ranked amateur, and Fred Stolle, ranked No. 2. "We'll win 4 to 1," predicted Aussie Captain Harry Hopman, as always the soul of confidence-and not without cause...
...missing another. Then California's Darryl Greenameyer won his first heat, beating Slovak by 10 m.p.h.-and disqualified himself by landing on Reno's paved runway instead of Stead's dirt. Not that Greenameyer didn't try. Stripped of practically everything, including landing flaps, his silver Bearcat hippity-hopped all over the runway until he frantically poured on the power and took off again. Landing safely at Reno, Greenameyer muttered: "I'm going to pick up my jacks and go home before I kill myself...
Resolution Kept. Murdock has by no means laid aside the silver-plated shovel he uses for all his ground-breaking ceremonies, even though Phoenix is temporarily overbuilt. He has developed 552 million worth of real estate since 1960, and recently he met with Transamerica Corp. officials who are interested in building a new apartment-hotel-shopping complex in Phoenix. With all this activity, he has hardly had time to revise the New Year's resolution he made in 1961: to make his company, then valued at $25 million, a $100 million enterprise within five years. He has already surpassed...