Word: silver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Army has had few tougher combat generals than James Alward Van Fleet, 69, who won three Distinguished Service Crosses, three Silver Stars and three Bronze Stars during a distinguished career that included leading an Army corps in Europe, defeating Communist guerrillas in Greece, and commanding the Eighth Army in Korea. But solid as was Van Fleet's reputation for bravery, it was occasionally matched by his reputation for shooting from the lip. Last week, on the eve of his recall by the Kennedy Administration as an Army consultant on guerrilla warfare, Van Fleet arose before a gathering of conservation...
...bridges were tumbled, irrigation systems shattered, imperial warehouses emptied; the enormous llama herds that provided meat and clothing were scattered and slaughtered. The conquistadors cut the richer lands of the Andean foothills into immense haciendas worked by Indian peasants held virtually as slaves. Today, while Peru exports cotton, sugar, silver and copper, it must import food to maintain even a marginal existence for the bulk of its 10 million people. Half the population is illiterate; undernourished children die of such simple maladies as measles and diarrhea...
...which left Yokohama last week, were two stone garden lanterns on their way to Hyannisport, Mass. The lanterns -one a three-ton, nine-foot model called kasuga, the other a one-ton, four-footer called yukimi ("snow-viewing" lantern)-are a present for President Kennedy from Professor Gunji Honoso, silver-haired international law expert at Tokyo's Aoyama Gakuin University, who got to know the President back in the days when Kennedy was a junketing Senator. Cost of both lanterns...
...trouble looms for Finch when he gets his own "Chinese provincial" executive hot suite as V.P. of advertising. But when he makes silver-dollar eyes at himself in the executive-washroom mirror, and sings I Believe in You, a passionate aria of self-love, it is clear that there will be no doom at the top for Finch...
...years of publication-a birthday observed with a silver anniversary issue last week-the monthly Catholic Digest has become the least ecclesiastical, and the most widely accepted, publication produced under the auspices of the Roman Catholic Church. Its paid circulation of 751,178 is surpassed among Catholic magazines only by Columbia (1,070,361), published largely for the Knights of Columbus, a fraternal order for Catholic laity. C.D. is printed in five languages and ten international editions (for Britain and Ireland, Belgium, The Netherlands, India, Italy, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France and the Philippines), and it is the only Catholic publication...