Word: silver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sitting Down. By week's end the Russians had amassed eleven gold, eight silver and six bronze medals-for a grand total of 25, almost twice as many as anybody else. The Russians' one king size disappointment was the men's 500-meter speed-skating sprint. On form, the race figured to be a breeze for Evgeny Grishin, 32, the world champion, the world record holder (at 39.5 sec.), the Olympic record holder (at 40.2 sec.), a double gold-medal winner at Cortina in 1956 and again at Squaw Valley in 1960. But accidents will happen...
...Weeks Bridge Sunday night. Three youths, described as "townies," attacked David A. Gantz of Cincinnati, Ohio, as he was walking back from the Business School parking lot. The youths, approaching from the Cambridge side of the river, knocked Gants to the ground and struck him with a silver-plated revolver. They got away with his wrist-watch, wallet, and $17 in cash...
...expected, Russia was turning the unofficial scoring race into a rout. By week's end the powerful Russians already had five gold, three silver and four bronze medals. After four days of competition, the U.S. had only Saubert's bronze slalom medal to show for its efforts...
Chemist S. Donald Stookey of Corning Glass Works explained that the strange "photochromic" glass, which he had invented along with Dr. William H. Armistead, contains submicroscopic crystals of silver halide, 128 million billion of them per cubic inch. They do not affect its color or transparency, but strong visible or ultraviolet light turns the crystals to metallic silver, which absorbs light and makes the glass look grey. The same thing happens to the silver halide particles in photographic film, but their darkening is permanent. The silver atoms in the glass are held so tightly that they cannot move away from...
...congressional ceremony on March 29, 1949, James Forrestal, retiring as the first Secretary of Defense, received a silver bowl and many plaudits: "A long and brilliant career . . . outstanding talents . . . one of the best analytical minds." A few hours after the ceremony, one of Forrestal's aides found him back at a spare office in the Pentagon, sitting in a rigid position, staring at the bare wall opposite. When the worried aide tried to talk to him, Forrestal said only: "You are a loyal fellow." When Forrestal went home, he seemed bewildered by the fact that he no longer...