Word: silver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...through. Moving behind a mortar barrage, the Pathet Lao swept through the mountain villages of the anti-Communist Meo tribesmen and closed in on the rightist roadblocks, driving before them hundreds of hapless Meo refugees. Meo men and women carry their wealth with them in the form of silver necklaces; as the Pathet Lao shot them down, soldiers would whip out knives and slash free the silver necklaces from the dead and dying Meos...
...huge new cross-cut genoa that is supposed to hold its shape better than old jibs. Eagle's 36-man syndicate is headed by Pierre du Pont and New York Yacht Club Commodore H. Irving Pratt and includes the recently divorced Mrs. Briggs Cunningham who donated the same silver dollar to place under Eagle's mast that rode under Columbia's when Cunningham captained it in the 1958 defense. Eagle's skipper: William S. Cox, 51, an international champion in small boats, whose lack of extensive big-boat experience is offset by a crew full...
...each other and for a formula fadeout. The younger Mills, abrim with mental health and ebullient spirits and thus strikingly miscast, suggests that she alone knows what it is that makes this Garden grow. Potash? Peat moss? Lime? No, just gobs and gobs of Pollyannalysis, laid on with a silver trowel...
...Crane, who saw the Brooklyn Bridge from his window 40 years ago and hymned it in verse, Robert Indiana, painter of the American Dream, sees the bridge every day from his studio. In homage to the poet he committed it to canvas in a four-faceted diamond filled with silver, singing girders. It is part of Indiana's American-dream theme, as are his Mother and Father Diptych showing his parents stepping into a Model T and his word columns-salvaged sailing-ship masts covered with typical Indiana "dream" words Eat, Hug, Love, Err, Die. Through...
Among the 800 items, there are first editions of Homer, Aristotle, Petrarch, The Faerie Queene, Don Quixote, Divine Comedy, Alice in Wonderland, and Uncle Tom's Cabin, just to mention a few. It took Chicago Lawyer Louis Silver a lifetime to compile his rare-book collection, and by the time he died last October at 61, he had spent $1,500,000. Now it belongs to Chicago's private Newberry Library, which shelled out $2,750,000 to get it from his estate. That upsets the rare-book-hungry University of Texas, which had agreed...