Word: silver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wealth and generations of superiority, says Hall, have made the nobility independent of public opinion. "The divorce court today represents more happiness than the silver wedding parties of our fathers," says Lord Kinross (only one marriage dissolved). The prevalence of silver or even golden divorces does not seem to dimmish the peerage's optimism about marriage; Earl Russell took a fourth wife at 80, and the Marquess of Winchester, now 99, tried for the third time...
...climbed through space together, the balloon appearing to grow smaller as it forged ahead. As the pair of space travelers passed their apogee (922 miles) and fell faster and faster toward the earth, the balloon appeared to shrink to a bright speck. Tracked by the following camera, the big silver sphere hit the fringes of the atmosphere and disappeared in a puff of smoke. The show ended a few moments later when the rocket and TV camera also burned...
...muggy, starlit night in the dusty Ontario lake town of Port Stanley (pop. 1,480). The fish flies swarmed, and the rickety Stork Club Ballroom had just disgorged 800 jazz fans. By 2:25 a.m., all 23 bandsmen had clambered aboard the big silver, red and white bus, followed by Bandleader Stan Kenton carrying a cardboard carton with 30 ham sandwiches. Somebody snapped on the switch of a blue light that signified drinking time, and the bus began to roll...
...pied a terre is a good example of style in Venice. The countess usually spends about a fortnight there in June; then off to Rome and other In spots until September, when Venice is Right again, for a while. Tethered outside when she is in residence is her silver-trimmed gondola, and four luxuriously appointed motorboats. The artist who designed the villa's furniture was paid an extra sum, equal to the royalties he would get for a given number of years from selling the designs commercially...
...free home delivery offered by the Jefftown Journal is hardly a bargain. All who read the paper live within the walls of the Missouri State Prison at Jefferson City, where the Journal is printed by its inmate staff. The Journal's policy is to look for the silver lining; it reports the bleak news of prison life in the brightest voice it can muster, and it encourages prisoners to work toward rehabilitation. But most Journal readers share a common misery that goes untouched by such institutional cheer. Lately they have found a wry spokesman in the Journal...