Word: silver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...giving presents to the poor and in return received garlands, tapers or grains of frankincense. On the Kalends of January (Jan. 1-3), Roman men gave one another "honeyed things" to ensure a year of sweetness, lamps to symbolize light and warmth, and money, gold or silver objects as talismans of wealth...
...HOUSEWARES: Old French decanters ($7 up), chafing dishes (from $15), wine racks (from $10), English pewter, Danish salad bowls and cheese boards. There are plenty of electrical gadgets for pushbutton minds; electric can openers and knife sharpeners (around $29.95), bun warmers ($9.95), silver polishers ($29.95), even electric pepper mills...
...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...
Among economists and financiers, the decision to reduce silver to a free market metal, like copper or tin, won resounding applause. On the silver market itself, the immediate repercussions were a jump in prices from 91? to just over a dollar an ounce and a sudden upsurge in silver-mining stocks. Whether this upward trend continues will determine how the battle lines will be drawn when Kennedy formally asks for legislation to discontinue silver as currency backing in the next session of Congress. If prices soar much higher, industrial silver users will surely put up a howl...
Died. Martin Henry Kennelly, 74, handsome, silver-topped reform Mayor of Chicago (1947-55) who rose from back-of-the-stockyards poverty to affluence as head of a warehousing and trucking firm, was drafted by reluctant Democratic bosses to end Mayor Ed ("Boss") Kelly's 14-year rule, but was so embittered when the machine unceremoniously dumped him after two terms that he refused to set foot in the city hall for the rest of his life; of a heart attack; in Chicago...