Word: silver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Louis Joxe has plump, ruddy cheeks, a large nose, silver hair and silver-rimmed spectacles; he looks, cracked French Novelist Jules Roy, "like a Roman consul, or maybe a cardinal." De Gaulle has praised him as "a model of conscience, the tomb of discretion," but he is also noted for humor and informality. In 1960, he was assigned to escort Nikita Khrushchev on his tour of France, became one of the few contenders to top Khrushchev in a proverb-spouting contest. The old adage (quoted by Dromio of Syracuse in Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors) that stopped Nikita...
Scrub After Scrub. On Jan. 27 Glenn very nearly made it. At 5:12 a.m., dressed in his silver spacesuit (it takes him an hour just to wriggle into the contraption), Glenn squeezed into the capsule - and lay flat on his back atop the Atlas-D while waiting for clouds to break so that the flight could go. The clouds refused to part. After 5 hours and 13 minutes, Glenn wearily hauled himself out of the capsule. Less than a week later, a fuel tank developed a defect which caused still another postponement...
...finals, the silver cup and purple and gold rosette were snatched away from the poodles by a dog as unfashionable as high-button shoes: Ch. Elfinbrook Simon, a stubby...
...because of your talent.' " He also disperses a shower of eccentricities. He makes his own breakfast, tossing two bananas, three eggs, half a pint of milk and some Bosco into a Waring Blendor. He flies kites. He wears cowboy boots with his tuxedo. He drives a silver 390-h.p. Facel-Vega sports car. "I've had beers in every kind of bar in this country." he drawls, "and I've raced with every kind of hood on the road...
...Back to Silver Tail. This time Father Hickey was past placating; he followed the customary course for desperate, rich parents, and bought his son a cadet's place with the East India Company. William was delighted; not knowing which regiment he would serve with, he bought one uniform of each, and paraded them alternately in the weeks before his departure. But when he got to Madras, he found the humours of the place unhealthy and climbed back aboard the same boat that had brought him. In London again, he misbehaved as before, and was packed off again, this time...