Word: silver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...John F. Kennedy National Seashore Park; the Massachusetts legislature received a proposal to emboss "Land of Kennedy" on the state's license plates, in the style of Illinois' "Land of Lincoln." In West Germany, where Kennedy toured triumphantly last June, the Bavarian mint began striking gold and silver medallions bearing Kennedy's likeness and the legend, "We all have lost him"; endlessly, Brücken (bridges) and Plätze (squares) were converted into Kennedy-Brücken and Kennedy-Plätze The John F. Kennedy Memorial Library at Harvard was incorporated, with Bobby as president...
...People call them baubles," said Napoleon of the awards. "Very well, it is with baubles that you lead men. There must be distinction." But the trouble was that the Legion of Honor soon lost its distinctiveness. Miners and postmen, shopkeepers, policemen, and even the official Elysée Palace silver polisher were garlanded along with poets, generals, industrialists and diplomats...
...there is one. The only glimpse people might have of him later is of an overcoated figure loping away over cobblestones. Few would recognize him even if they had studied his picture. He suggests a small-town storekeeper with a long face, an unassertive little mustache and silver-rimmed glasses...
Painting in Gems. The Wittelsbach treasure represents some of the finest works of a moribund art in which precious stones, rather than paint, provided color, and malleable gold and silver, rather than marble, was shaped to the sculptor's concept of form. The Schatzkammer's most ostentatious piece, an equestrian statue of the knight St. George, has 2,291 diamonds, 406 rubies and 209 pearls-and an artistic value transcending them all. Almost unnoticed beneath its bright blanket of jewels, the horse's opal eye flashes balefully from a smooth, stylized head of chalcedony. The swoop...
...Glitter. Guarded by bank-vault-type doors, electric-eye burglar alarms and "footmen" whose blue-and-silver waistcoats bulge with shoulder-holster Lugers, the new Schatzkam-mer operates with little fanfare. "Too much publicity," explains Director Hans Thoma, "might only attract some fool Rififi who might take a crack at the wealth. The public should come gradually, not because they are intrigued by the glitter, but because of the artistic pleasure it gives to see so much precious beauty assembled...