Word: silver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...horrible." Sunday evening church services became funeral rites. Five miles from downtown Atlanta, in the Buckhead section where most of the vic tims had lived, friends and relatives dropped a protective curtain of silence around the mourning families, answered the phones, manned the doors, accept ed the flowers. The silver trays on foy er tables whitened with visiting cards and notes...
...sell MiVida and itc mill to New York's Atlas Corp. for $12.8 million. Steen sold for capital gains "because it was the only way I could keep anything." Steen now operates two big Nevada cattle ranches, has branched out into other kinds of mining (lead, zinc, silver, gold and mercury), recently bought a New Mexico marble quarry, and is erecting an office building in Reno. Says the 42-year-old ex-prospector: "I don't intend to sit around and collect dividends...
...subject of his speech hardly mattered, for Ashurst could have held his audience spellbound by reciting the contents of a telephone book. The nation knew him as "Five-Syllable Henry," the ''Silver-Tongued Sunbeam of the Painted Desert." He described himself as a victim of "the inflatus of oratory" and a "veritable peripatetic bifurcated volcano." The Senate has not seen his likes since he left, and it will not soon again. For there was only one Henry Fountain Ashurst, and he died last week...
Restless drifters between the gilded mansions of Palm Beach and the palm-fringed villas of the French Riviera for a quarter of a century, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor arranged to spend their silver wedding anniversary with what the New York Times termed "symbolic appropriateness''-at sea. After a farewell whirl of champagne-and-caviar parties tossed by Manhattan's ever-doting socialites, Edward, 67, and Wallis, 65, boarded the liner United States for a trip to Europe and a quiet, high-seas celebration in perfect counterpoint to the carnival atmosphere surrounding their 1937 wedding...
...easily detectable. So are buried walls, whose stones usually have different magnetic properties from the material that covers them. Empty spaces, such as buried tombs, stick out like magnetic sore thumbs. Most conspicuous of all are objects of iron or steel, but the magnetometer does not detect gold and silver, and it will be of little use to treasure seekers...