Word: silver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...poor. The 15,000 Panamanians who work in the Zone do considerably better, with an average annual income of $2,200. But they complain about discriminatory pay scales for equal jobs and other "exploitation," past and present. Only in 1955 did the U.S. abolish the humiliating "gold" and "silver" drinking fountains, toilets and pay lines -segregation dating back to canal-building days when Panamanians were paid in silver, Americans in gold...
...losses. One gain is the small but steady national increase in converts to Judaism. "I don't know of a rabbi who isn't constantly busy tutoring non-Jews who want to convert to Judaism," says Dr. Max Vorspan of California's University of Judaism. Another silver-lining view is that intermarriage is an inevitable by-product of a worthy accomplishment, the general acceptance of Judaism in U.S. life. "We want tolerance, understanding and intergroup amity," says Rabbi Joseph Narot of Miami's Temple Israel. "And while this is more likely to bring about intermarriage...
...silver and crystal bottle, wrapped in three cloth bags, nestled in three wooden boxes, locked in a cabinet, in the innermost of four cells, protected by four guards, a brownish hair from the head of Mohammed has lain for three centuries in Srinagar's mosque of Hazrat Bal. On holy days, the prophet's hair is tenderly removed from its resting place, attached to a chain and locked around the waist of one or the other of five Bandey brothers, the hereditary keepers who alone are permitted to touch the sacred relic and show it to Moslem worshipers...
Australians have won the Davis Cup so regularly (eleven out of the last 13 years) that nobody else remembers whether the silver monstrosity holds one magnum of champagne or two. The U.S. had not reached the Challenge Round since 1959, and the last time it won was in 1958-when Peruvian Alex Olmedo took the Pledge of Allegiance with his fingers crossed. But last week an American team finally took the cup home...
...poor every two weeks. In summer, they provide free vacations for twelve older people each month at a pleasant cottage on Delavan Lake, Wisconsin. Their ideal of a truly welcome gift for a penniless old woman is not a bundle of used clothing but a diamond ring on her silver wedding anniversary...