Word: silver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...booming through a bull horn: "Shame, shame; shame on you! We have been betrayed by you, Mr. Blundell!" Others cried, "You rat!," and their leader, wiry little highlands farmer, Major Jim Hughes, 63, hurled a handful of coins at Blundell's feet, shouting, "Here are 30 pieces of silver for you, Judas-go on, pick them up!" (Said Blundell later: "It's due to his living at 8,300 feet...
...down by its girl skiers, the U.S. rested its hopes for individual gold medals on a pair of figure skaters. The confidence was well placed. In the climactic free skating, New York City's blonde Carol Heiss, 20, four-time world champion since she took a silver medal in 1956, flashed a smile that was only a trifle too tight, soared effortlessly through an intricate routine (the show stopper: two successive, whirling leaps taken from alternate skates), and easily won her gold medal to keep a promise made to her dying mother in 1956. Daughter of a baker...
...chocolate milkshake in a paper cup which a friend handed her. A group of Australian hockey players squeezed in. "We'll be watching you in the next few days," promised Pat. The trainer of the Russian skating team swiveled into position before the Nixons, fastened a silver tie clip to the Vice President's collar. "Sputnik," he said, pointing to the engraving on the clasp. "We're so happy to see you," said Pat. "I have a memento for you." And she handed him a green ballpoint...
...exhibition of Javanese art-beautiful hand-dipped batik cloth and finely worked silver-Sukarno smilingly asked Nikita, "Which would you like?" Growled Khrushchev: "I don't like anything, I don't like anything," but added grudgingly, "The workmanship is good." When Sukarno, nettled, tried to explain the intricate handwork involved, Khrushchev put him straight on the new industrialism: "They cost too much, not only in price but in human life. If we go on like this, there will be no progress. Machines, machines are what you need!" But he posed for photographers when Sukarno wrapped a sarong around...
...tribesmen, clad in red-and-blue turbans, black pants and tunics, and weighted down with massive silver ankle-rings and foot-and-a-half-long hairpins, arrived with the jam, the boys at the Snow Leopard sent their Chinese agents to bid for the crop. Even though this has been a bad year for poppies-there was a two-month drought in the hills-the Meo are getting only the equivalent of $20 a kilo (2.2 lbs.). The same kilo, when it reaches the Laotian capital of Vientiane, will be worth $60; at Saigon in South Viet Nam it will...