Word: silver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Year award: former Vice President Richard M. Nixon, 50, who visited Egypt in June. "He did not bargain," explained Shopkeeper Ali Farag. "He seemed concerned with the appearance of things, he was not interested in the materials of which they were made." Nixon's reward: an inscribed silver tray. Back home in Manhattan, the puzzled winner recalled only that he did "lots of handshaking" at the bazaar. "Mrs. Nixon and the girls did most of the buying...
...trouncing Michigan, the perennial national champion, and snapping a Wolverine string of 33 straight dual-meet victories. In celebration, Indiana swimmers dumped Counsilman, clothes and all, into the pool. That year four of Counsilman's swimmers made the 17-man U.S. Olympic team, won three gold medals, one silver, one bronze. Members of the present Indiana squad hold world records for the medley relay, individual medley (Ted Stickels), backstroke (Tom Stock) and breast stroke (Chet Jastremski...
...Among really valuable items are the 1804 silver dollar, which brought $36,000 at its last sale, and the Brasher Doubloon, which the coin department of Gimbels in Manhattan has insured...
...Weather Bureau sent a strike force of airplanes on a "bombing" mission aimed at Hurricane Esther's heat chimney. Into the chimney they dropped eight finned, 130 lb. bombs which spewed a cloud of minute silver iodide particles as they fell. The crystals acted like small ice "seeds," and supercooled droplets of water instantly froze around them. Instant icing released the latent heat of fusion, equivalent to the energy of eight 20-kiloton atomic bombs. In one hour, radar showed that a 160° segment of the chimney had been knocked out. Maximum wind speeds dropped by as much...
Jackie Washington, the Silver Leaf Gospel Singers and Eric Von Schmidt head the bill for a folksing tonight in Sanders Theater at 8 p.m. The proceeds of the event, sponsored by the Harvard-Radcliffe Liberal Union, will be donated to the Greater Boston Committee for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom...