Word: silver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kean. No one went hungry at Mrs. Kean's swoop. She lives in a 15-room duplex apartment that covers the entire top of the Hotel Westbury like a two-acre astrakhan hat. She had Russian-speaking waiters up there passing champagne and beef Stroganoff on sterling silver platters. She had Henry Fonda, Robert Preston. Jerome Robbins, Gene Kelly. She had jazzman Ted Straeter, with a five-piece band. The young people of the Bolshoi loved every minute of it. When Straeter flooded the place with twist music, members of the corps de ballet were soon writhing...
...Behind silver's spectacular rise lay two major causes. Demand for silver now exceeds new supply largely because of the rapid expansion of industrial uses for the metal in electronics, aerospace and photography (for film emulsions). Last year the free world consumed 351 million oz., but new production was only 211 million oz. On top of this, the U.S. Government last fall stopped its longtime practice of selling silver from its stockpile at 91? per oz. Back in 1946, the U.S. had set the price at 91? to support silver, but the heavy demand of recent years had turned...
Where prices go next depends largely upon Mexico, which last year produced one-fifth of the free world's new supply of silver and is also a big hoarder of the metal. Last week the Mexicans, acting to hold the price at $1.13, were cautiously selling from their reserves. They were fearful that if the price went much higher, Red China might start dumping its reputedly large hoard and thereby crack the market...
...some silver-fingered fountain steals the world...
...being." It doesn't. For one thing, Actress Marchand's face is no more capable of transformation than a kewpie doll's. For another, Director Varda suddenly twists the heroine's harm into a happy ending which sentimentally suggests that every shroud has a silver lining...