Word: silver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kennediana, or maybe just plain Kennedy. Some 700 families living in an Alliance for Progress housing project in Caracas, Venezuela, voted to name the project after the Yanqui President. Nevada's Democratic Senator Alan Bi ble proposed that next year's scheduled minting of 50 million silver dollars bear the J.F.K. profile...
...tangled pieces of metal, and an ugly, water-filled crater-6 ft. deep and 150 ft. wide. It was all that remained of Trans-Canada Airlines Flight 831, a DC-8F jet with seven crew and 111 passengers aboard. At 6:30 p.m., the big red-and-silver jetliner lifted off Montreal's rainswept International Airport and banked left on course for Toronto 320 miles to the southwest. Four minutes later, townsfolk in Ste. Thérèse de Blainville heard a thunderous explosion as the plane slammed into a muddy field. The kerosene-fed fire raged...
Died. Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver, 70, ardent Zionist, since 1917 leader of The Temple in Cleveland, one of the nation's largest Reformed Jewish congregations, a fifth-generation rabbi who with Rabbi Stephen Wise in 1943 organized the lobby that was instrumental in persuading Congress in 1945 to declare in favor of a Jewish national home, later presented the case for Palestinian partition before the U.N., in 1948 was pleased to see the creation of Israel itself; of a heart attack; in Cleveland...
...made to assume an infinite number of seductive shapes depending on the pressure to which it is inflated. But as Gogol's love grows, so does his distaste for his aging rubber wife, and the two "struggle so fiercely with each other in his heart" that on his silver wedding anniversary he deliberately overinflates his wife and blows her to bits, crying, "Oh, how I love her, how I love her, my poor, poor darling...
...jungle-gym set. Johnson walked through the flower garden into the oval presidential office. There secretaries had cleared Jack Kennedy's desk of personal mementos: a coconut shell on which he had carved a message of his survival after his PT boat sank in World War II, a silver calendar noting the dates of his confrontation with Nikita Khrushchev over Soviet missiles in Cuba, photos of Jackie and the children. Johnson lingered only briefly, decided to work out of his three-room vice-presidential suite in the adjacent Executive Office Building...