Word: silver
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Without Catcalls. The two candidates offer the Down East voters a remarkable choice. As the senior Senator from Maine. Margaret Chase Smith, 62, is the U.S.'s ranking female office holder. A cool, silver-haired, sometimes tart-tongued Republican, she has won the esteem of her colleagues and the nation for her diligence, independence and courage. In 23 years on Capitol Hill, as her late husband's secretary, as his successor in the House of Representatives, and as the second woman ever elected to the Senate, Maggie Smith has served her sex, her state and the U.S. with...
...Gertrude Stein put it: "One must never forget that Spain is not like other southern countries, it is not colorful, all the colors in Spain are white black silver or gold, there is no red or green...
...very top of the Army ladder. A World War II specialist in logistical problems, he drew up plans for the 1942 invasion of Africa, negotiated the German surrender in Italy in 1945, but remained enough of a combat soldier to go to parachute school at 51 and earn the Silver Star under fire while commanding the 7th Infantry Division in Korea. Commander of the U.N. forces in Korea (1955-57), he became Army Vice Chief of Staff in 1957, then Chief of Staff in 1959. Last week President Eisenhower announced that sometime Clean Sleeve Lemnitzer. 61, would be the next...
...Four-Star General George Henry Decker, 58, who is even calmer and quieter than Lemnitzer. "You could set a bomb off under his desk and he wouldn't turn a hair," a fellow officer once said. He, too, specialized in logistics during World War II, but won a Silver Star in combat in New Guinea. Army Comptroller in 1952-55 and later commander of the U.N. forces in Korea, Decker succeeded Lemnitzer as Vice Chief of Staff in 1959. A graduate of Lafayette College, General Decker provides one more argument against the widespread notion that only a West Point...
...simple as a pulled muscle might have kept Johnson off the Olympic team altogether, he went all out for a special reason. Kuznetsov had captured his world record and pushed the score to 8,357 points. In the ninth event, Johnson raced smoothly across the grass and sent a silver javelin shimmering into the air. When it landed 233 ft. 3 in. away, Johnson knew he had already passed Kuznetsov's world record. In pure delight, he began sprinting after his toss. Then he suddenly stopped and knelt to pray in the middle of the field, his face...