Word: silver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other accounts, they forded the Massacre River from the Dominican Republic. One way or the other, in the hot, flat northeast corner of Haiti one morning last week, a band of Haitian exiles led by former army officers waded back into their homeland. Still dripping wet, silver-haired General Léon Cantave, 53, quickly organized his meager forces. Then they all marched off to overthrow, or at least harass, François ("Papa Doc") Duvalier, Haiti's brutal dictator...
...thought he'd "like to have a little fun -just to see where the farm's payroll goes." So instead of checks or folding money, he personally doled out the regular payroll to 150 of his Winrock farm hands, in the form of 20,000 clinking silver dollars done up in individual pouches. The experiment pleased at least one farm hand. Said he as he hefted home his lode: "A Rockefeller's silver is as good as gold...
...would also form various collections, including "artistic models, books, drawings, pictures and statues." In time, the decorative arts collection grew to 80,000 items, ranging from a 2,300-year-old mitten from China to the world's best collection of medieval fabrics. It has Persian calligraphy, English silver, tapestries, ceramics, furniture, wallpaper, works in glass, enamel and wood. Its library may be unsurpassed in the U.S., and its collection of drawings and prints is superb. Its Winslow Homers alone-more than 300 works -are probably worth an amount that would be well over...
Shenker enlisted the help of LIFE Photographer Howard Sochurek. who arrived bearing a silver plate on which sat a tremendous pike. Behind came two assistants, one bearing bowls of shrimp, another carrying a roast suckling pig. All of this, Shenker casually informed Harriman, had been prepared in the Kremlin kitchens...
...CENTRAL CITY OPERA FESTIVAL (June 29-July 27). Back in its 19th century heyday, when gold and silver were being dug out of its mountains, Central City, Colo., was the roaring capital of "The Little Kingdom of Gilpin." Its lusty miners built a splendid stone opera house and imported their music along with beans, bacon, and mining tools. But in time the gold went out of the Golden West and Central City became a near ghost town. Then 32 years ago, the old opera house was restored...