Word: silver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chief among these witnesses was White House Aide Walter Jenkins, who seemed to have an immunity from, as well as an aversion to, being questioned. During the Baker hearings, Jenkins was first mentioned by Witness Don Reynolds, a Silver Spring, Md., insurance broker who shared commissions with Baker. Reynolds told the committee that in 1957, when he was trying to sell Lyndon Johnson, then Senate majority leader, a $100,000 life insurance policy, Jenkins had put the arm on him to buy $1,208 of advertising time on Lady Bird Johnson's TV station in Texas. In a written...
...must have flown it in," marveled a California highway patrolman. "You can't drive in there." The crumpled silver-grey Ferrari was wedged between the pines in a canyon in California's High Sierras, where Singer Vic Damone, 35, crash-landed after skidding on a patch of snowy pavement. The car was a total wreck, but Damone and Wife Judy escaped with only minor dents. Alas, Groaner Damone had bought the Italian sports car only five hours earlier for $15,000, which is about what he earned during a ten-day engagement at the Reno nightclub owned...
...basic cause of all the excitement was the silver dollar. None have been minted since 1935, and the supply has been dwindling enough to bring a new sound to Las Vegas: in casino after casino the muted click of plastic chips has supplanted the tintinnabulation of traditional cartwheels. Last fortnight the House Appropriations Committee refused the Treasury permission to mint new silver dollars on the grounds that all its facilities should be devoted to stemming the growing shortage of small change being gobbled up by vending machines. This, plus the news that in delving into its dwindling supply of cartwheels...
Freshman sensation Neville Hayes, an Olympic silver medal winner and University record holder in the 200-yard breaststroke, and sophomore Henry Frey, the Crimson's leading individual medleyist this season, are other key figures in the outlook for Abramson's squad next year...
...Servant shakes the senses by wallowing in the triumph of evil over evil. But if Losey intends an all-out attack on Britain's caste system, he may have blundered into a paradox. Many a viewer will come away feeling that a world of candlelight and polished silver might be perfectly satisfactory-if only the hired help knew its place...