Word: silver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Being active in the labor movement, I was interested in your article on Secretary of Labor Arthur Goldberg. I am a member of Local 5114 United Steelworkers of America of Mullan, Idaho, which is now on strike against the Lucky Friday Silver Lead Mines Co. I wish to take issue with you on your implication that youth is apathetic in the labor movement. I am the oldest (52) man on the executive board. Our president is 32 and vice president...
...rigidly self-disciplined technician, blocky (5 ft. 11 in., 198 Ibs.) ex-Catcher Houk arrives at Yankee Stadium four hours before game time, consults with his coaches and studies line-up cards in a paneled office that is necessarily equipped with a handy silver spittoon. He takes careful notes during pregame batting and fielding practice. "That way," he says, "I might notice that one of their guys is hurt, or pick up one or two other little things." Like Hutchinson. Houk has a fierce tem per-but he usually keeps it in check. "Temper hurt me a time...
...chance to bring down the great hammer of the corporation behind him on the visible enemy. The ending, wherein Goodman twists the knife perhaps a bit too hard, deserves to be left unrecorded in a review except to say that the hero loses his mind and wins the Silver Star...
...Silver & Snuff. Montclair got its museum almost in spite of itself. Around 1910 an elderly collector named William Evans offered to leave 40 American paintings, including a Ralph Albert Blakelock and a Childe Hassam, to Montclair, provided that the town put up a suitable building. When the town hesitated, Mrs. Henry Lang, an heir to the Rand mining machinery millions, briskly decided to get things moving by putting up $50,000 herself. In 1914 the neoclassic building opened its doors...
...Hearst, who spent millions on prototype superspectacles-and happily lost money on most of them, always casting Marion as a kind of imperial virgin. Full of fun and laughter, with a clear eye for the absurd, Marion called him Pops, and liked to run her fingers through his sterling-silver hair. She would have become his wife as well, but Hearst's wife (and still surviving widow) Millicent, herself a former chorine, steadily denied Hearst his request for a divorce...