Word: silver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...streets and repaired the waterworks from a source of cash no other province enjoys. It is the cut Tshombe gets from Katanga's Union Minière, the firm that produces 8% of the world's copper, 60% of its cobalt, as well as cadmium, zinc, silver, etc. Union Minière this year is due to hand Tshombe's regime some $52 million in dividends, mineral export taxes and other fees, enough to cover at least 80% of his entire budget. More than that, Union Minière is the Congo's biggest employer, paying...
Despite his widely trumpeted salvation through psychoanalysis, the silver screen's golden boy still nursed at least one phobia. Heading home from Argentina, where he had been on location with the Cossack classic, Taras Bulba, Tony Curtis made it to Manhattan by slow boat and, buoyed by a bracing abrazo from Wife Janet Leigh, entrained for the long overland run to Hollywood. Reason for Curtis time-consuming travel plan: an aversion to flying...
...they trooped glumly into the wood-paneled splendor of their boardroom one morning last week, 26 governors of the American Stock Exchange steeled themselves for an unpleasant task. An hour later the deed was done. Out of his $75,000-a-year job as president of Amex went genial, silver-haired Edward Theodore McCormick, 50. Out along with McCormick went his right-hand man and chief adviser, Exchange General Counsel Michael E. Mooney...
...Complete Ronald Firbank. Duchesses, bishops, and clockwork nightingales move languidly among the silver cobwebs of the oddly fascinating world created by this ineffable British fantast...
...radical enlargement of the tonal and rhythmic language of traditional jazz. Yet it became clear after a few years that bop had its own limitations, but it had developed certain specific conventions within which only the greatest improvisors could flourish. When these improvisors were not forthcoming, some, like Horace Silver, worked out partial solutions, but these were largely formal in nature...