Word: silver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After his appointment last March as U.S. Ambassador to Finland, Rowan fascinated the Finns with his outspoken talk about U.S. racial problems. And on racial matters, Rowan is understandably militant. "No people I can recall in history ever got their freedom on a silver platter," he says. "The Negro is no exception. There's a latent decency in the American conscience. But it takes this militancy to arouse...
...Globo accused Victoria Market racketeers of all the shootings and prophesied that "the next victims will be at Muratore's funeral." At St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Muratore's body, clad in a Capuchin's robes, lay in a $1,575 casket with silver fittings, surrounded by floral offerings. Throngs of dapper Italians wearing black ties, dark tight-fitting suits with tapered trousers, and black pointed shoes escorted their wives in deep mourning. In a building opposite, Melbourne police focused binoculars and telephoto cameras on the 200 cars that made up the funeral procession...
...York he will meet the world's fastest sprinter, Bob Hayes, in the 60-dash, but won't have to face Hayes Jones in the hurdles. In the B.A.A. Jones, who has won 49 consecutive indoor races, will head a field that includes Olympic silver medalist Willie May as well as Awori...
...Oregon's Jean Saubert, 21: the special slalom at the women's Silver Jug ski races, in Bad Gastein, Austria. Only U.S. female skier to win a race in Europe this winter (she has now won four), Jean beat France's Marielle Goitschel by about 1 sec., and established herself as a heavy favorite to win either or both slalom events at the Olympics in Innsbruck next week...
...Richard Boiling, 47, newly divorced Democratic Congressman from Kansas City; and Jim Grant Akin, 35, blonde congressional lobbyist for the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, daughter of a well-heeled Texas oilman and, until her divorce fortnight ago, wife of yet another; both for the second time; in Silver Spring...