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Word: silver (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Leaving Delhi last week, a special train crawled slowly through a yellow haze of summer dust. In one coach, heaped with red roses, jasmine and white lotus blooms, stood a large silver-and-copper urn holding Nehru's ashes.*Reaching Allahabad, Nehru's home town, late that night, the urn was carried in procession through the predawn coolness to the riverbank and loaded aboard a white-painted amphibious "duck." The boat moved out to a spot where the muddy brown current of the sacred Ganges is joined by the green water of the Jumna River. Airplanes circled overhead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India: Close to the Soil | 6/19/1964 | See Source »

...been prompted by half a dozen recent oil, gas and metal strikes, notably the spectacular copper, zinc and silver find by Texas Gulf Sulphur near Timmins. Ont. More than 1,000 prospectors have staked 8,000 claims, some as far as 65 miles from the strike site. Texas Gulf Sulphur will spend $20 million to develop its Timmins properties, and such Canadian firms as Noranda Mines, Hudson's Bay and Consolidated Mining together have raised their exploration budgets in the area by $10 million. International Nickel put 30 surveyors to work, some in helicopters, and even staked more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: Back to the Mines | 6/19/1964 | See Source »

...cues, Los Tarantos throbs whenever plot and subtitles give way to the stirring beat of darting hands and clicking heels. When an old man caracoles through a whirlwind of autumn leaves. Or when Rafael's doomed friend (Antonio Gades) dances among Barcelona's street sprinklers in the silver-blue wash of a winter's night, casting a rich theatrical spell that makes many another movie musical look as pale as 60-watt moonshine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Bard in Barcelona | 6/19/1964 | See Source »

...name is that for The Bronx? And look at his middle name-Brewster-isn't that pathetic?" Bingham indeed seemed out of place in The Bronx, which in considerable part is a low-income land of garment workers and small shopkeepers, of tenements and Bronx cheer. A slim, silver-haired, impeccably tailored product of Groton and Yale, Bingham has been for the past three years a U.S. representative to the United Nations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York: And the Big Name Is Wagner | 6/12/1964 | See Source »

...years, the freckled blonde from Hans Brinkerland has been dazzling European fans with her silver skates. Now American audiences will have a chance to see the twisting double axels, flying camels, and sizzling sit-spins that have made The Netherlands Sjoulcje Dijkstra (pronounced Shaw-keya Dike-stra), 22, European, world and Olympic champion. Outdistancing Sonja Henie as the world's most highly paid winterland performer, Sjoukje signed a two-year contract with the U.S.'s Holiday on Ice show for a reported $50,000 to $90,000 a year, a fancy figure that, if she likes to wear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 5, 1964 | 6/5/1964 | See Source »

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