Word: silver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...oppressive sultriness of a tropical afternoon, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson stepped down from his silver-colored Boeing 707 at the Saigon airport in South Viet Nam, to be greeted with ruffles and flourishes, an honor guard, and all the pomp and circumstance of a high state visit. To accompanying U.S. newsmen who remembered L.B.J. as the hand-squeezing, baby-kissing politician on the 1960 campaign trail, the airport ceremonies seemed a bit incongruous. But things soon got back to normal: as soon as the formalities were over, Lyndon hurried out to the crowd gathered in front of the airport...
...this place to make money, not to serve tramps," thundered Mrs. John T. Reges at the trio of drenched, mud-spattered hikers who led a march to her Old Anglers Inn near the Potomac last week and began unwrapping their homemade sandwiches. Singling out the mild-looking, silver-haired elder of the group, she barked: "Get off that rug! Get over there with the rest of the wet ones." When someone protested, she pointed at the puddles on the floor and demanded: "Well, is he going to clean up the mess?" Then she turned on the grinning youngster...
Minor in Mono. She makes the wait almost worthwhile. Hands splayed at her sides, she bounces onstage in a fringe-bottomed silver dress, dancing madly from the knees down. Looking fragile and heart-catching, she flashes a brave smile (she is seldom in danger from the racketeers and certainly is not menaced by the reporters, but her silver dress weighs 40 pounds). Then, in a small, careful voice, she sings My Buddy or Till We Meet Again. Afterward the actors go back to stalking each other. But next season things will be different, and Dorothy's role will...
Died. Harry Falconer McLean, 78, boisterous, eccentric Canadian construction king, the fabled "Mr. X" who once dumped $5,000 in silver and small bills out of his hotel window, handed out $100 bills to soldiers and chambermaids, $1,000 and $2,000 checks to bellhops and cabbies because "I like to see people happy," and was swamped with 27,000 marriage proposals (he ignored them all, was married twice, to other women); of a stroke; in Merrickville, Ont. A 6-ft., 200-lb. bear of a man whose tastes ran to torpedo-sized cigars, buffalo-skin coats and liquor...
...Home. Despite its inadequacies, more small coins of pure silver and less stage money than any other American play of the season...