Word: silver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lyndon Johnson sent a covered vermeil punch bowl. Charles de Gaulle gave a porcelain and bronze table, Queen Elizabeth a gold-plated fruit basket, Indira Gandhi a silver miniature of New Delhi's minaret, Kutb Minar. From Russia's President Nikolai Podgorny came a 31-ft. porcelain vase, from Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba a solid gold olive tree and from Kuwait's Emir Sabah as Salem as Sabah two black Arabian stallions. President Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines sent a packet of seeds of a new strain of rice that, if it finds the right soil...
...widely ranging activities as department stores and rubber making, profits were off 1.8% for the quarter; the New York Times found 475 companies up 1% for the quarter but down 3.6% for the first nine months of the year. The results were disappointing, but there was at least a silver lining. For the last quarter of the year and for next year as well, earnings are expected to rise again, thereby justifying Lyndon Johnson's argument for a tax increase...
...appeals for help, Burton cannot refuse. "I like you," he says, surprised-"God knows why." Next morning the Tontons offer Burton $2,000 and freedom to reveal the whereabouts of his colleague. The weary, dreary reply is inevitable: "Inflation is everywhere. It used to be 30 pieces of silver." Once he has refused to play Judas, the only role open to him is Jesus...
...executive suite. Himself a Stanford business-school graduate (class of 1936), Arbuckle started off with Standard Oil of California first as a personnel officer, later as an organization analyst-with time out for wartime Navy duty as a PT boat squadron commander (for which he won a silver star) and on General Lucius D. Clay's staff in occupied Germany. He later joined a statewide California dairy company, and in 1950 went to W. R. Grace & Co., where he became an executive vice president before moving to Stanford...
Interest in materials "that are in our life today" next led Marca-Relli to experiment directly with freestanding constructions and panels of aluminum, either left in silver or covered with gaudy paint. As a rule, the rivets and nails lhat hold the work together are left exposed because they make the work reminiscent of "machines that do something." Cristobal, for instance, is built of red, white and blue vinyl and is meant to suggest "the side of a freighter" going to some distant clime...