Word: silver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bearing a handsomely engraved Burmese silver bowl for Nikita Khrushchev, U.N. Secretary-General U Thant flew into Moscow last week on a matter of principal: $54,768,188 in back payments that Russia owes the world organization...
...granddaddy was a Texan, but Treasury Secretary C. Douglas Dillon, 54, is an Eastern dude. Nonetheless, he knows that out West, it ain't spurs that go jingle, jangle, jingle, it's those silver dollars the mountain folk use as a status symbol to stun the visitors. Caving in to Western mining-state demands, Congress approved funds to mint 45 million new cart wheels, as recommended by neatly lassoed Dillon, who called them "a traditional medium of exchange in many Western states." So they are, in one vital area of commerce: there's no earthly...
...Mississippi: The Closed Society, Silver...
...Silk to Silver. The man who did most to demonstrate the effectiveness of IUCDS did not live to see the dawn of the new age that he pioneered. German Gynecologist Ernst Gräfenberg, born in 1881, began inserting rings in the wombs of his patients in the 1920s. He first used rings made of surgical silk, but soon switched to silver wire. The insertion of wire required dilatation of the cervix, but Dr. Gräfenberg reported few complications and fewer unwanted pregnancies. Yet when other doctors decided to follow his example, there were many complaints-mainly excessive bleeding...
...glorious Chinese People's Republic, to indulge in such barbarian ostentation as a limousine was hardly thinkable. Nonetheless, Mao has apparently decided to make the great leap forward in style. Peking has placed an order with Britain's decadent Rolls-Royce Ltd., for a $12,726 Silver Cloud Mark III and a $20,454 Phantom V. They should do a lot for his image at the Gate of Heavenly Peace, since with a little friendly assistance even the clock in a Rolls can be persuaded not to tick...