Word: silver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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LAST week TIME Inc. acquired a 77-year-old textbook publishing firm, the Silver Burdett Co.. and this provides a suitable occasion to tell our readers something about our expanding venture into book publishing...
...Silver Burdett has deep roots in American education, providing textbooks, mostly for elementary schools, in music, arithmetic, spelling, geography and history. Its texts are in use in all 50 states and in 113 countries, and it has published books in such languages as Bengali. Urdu. Thai. and. for the past 60 years in the Philippines, in Tagalog. Last year its sales totaled $7,500,000. As a subsidiary of TIME Inc.. it will continue to operate with its present management and staff in Morristown X.J.. but will now be able to make use of our corporate resources, including...
...guest speaker was New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller, the occasion a $100-a-plate fund-raising dinner for 1,640 Nassau County (Long Island) Republicans. As a token, Dinner Chairman Salvatore Malone provided each diner with a silver dollar encased in plastic-leading Rocky to recall: "It was my grandfather's custom for years to give away dimes. But tonight Sal Malone is giving away dollars. It just shows it pays to stick along with the Republican Party-three generations, dimes to dollars...
Warm Seats & Melted Silver. In Chichester last week for the 100-mile Goodwood International Grand Prix, Moss played himself to the hilt. Supercharged and sassy, he played croquet, guzzled fruit juice at a cocktail party thrown by the Duke of Richmond and Gordon (whom he irreverently called "Your Gryce" in a broad Cockney accent), stayed up twisting at a country dancehall until 2 a.m. On race morning, while other drivers, taut and nervous, brooded over seltzer and coffee, he happily downed a huge breakfast, described the novel furnishings he was planning for his bachelor digs in London: a heated toilet...
...submarine service of the campaign newspaper, the "Peabody Bandwagon," relates his war records times his submarine surfaced ing parties, led by Peabody, to the enemy's vessels and engaged in hand-to-hand combat. For his deeds...Peabody was personally decorated by Secretary of the Navy Forrestal with the Silver Star...