Word: silver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fitfully provocative. It scouts out the sad-sack destiny of Jacob Epp, a private who looks ''like a bloodshot owl and talks like an IBM computer that has majored in sociology. Sal Mineo makes an appealing Epp, and Epp's captain, Kevin McCarthy, wins a Silver Star for acting sensitivity...
...three straight years, the big silver punch bowl belonged to Frank Sedgman and Ken McGregor. Perhaps the best all-round shotmaker Australia has ever produced. Sedgman still plays part-time pro tennis, owns a gymnasium and squash courts in Melbourne. McGregor now runs an Adelaide sporting goods store...
Edward McCormack battles Ted Kennedy for the Massachusetts Democratic senatorial nomination and loses. Rumors have it that the Kennedys purchased the whole convention, including McCormack. Ted Kennedy steps up the campaign. George Cabot Lodge, the Republican nominee, attacks Kennedy as "one of the idle rich, the silver spooners, and the (so-called) Better People, a Harvard dupe...
When he is on the attack, which is most of the time, Menon's expression is ferretlike. Brain surgery last October for a blood clot deprived him of his elaborately curled silver locks, making his looks even fiercer. Though he has no known history of any leg ailment, he constantly brandishes a cane as if it were a weapon. A teetotaler and vegetarian, Menon, 64, dresses with Savile Row impeccability at the U.N.; at home in India, he wears a loose-fitting, collarless jibbah in which, says one Western observer, "he looks like Boris Karloff playing John the Baptist...
...currency really got unmanageable around 770, when Offa, King of Mercia, decided to issue pennies weighing the equivalent of "32 wheat corns in the midst of the ear." Since the pound sterling was based on a pound of silver, this later came out to 240 pence to the pound...