Word: silver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Precisely because the spoken word is so important to the Arabs, government censors at first felt compelled to red-pencil portions of the regular Friday sermon from the silver-domed El Aksa mosque. In protest, most of the mosque's weekly crowd of 15,000 worshipers stayed away, and 24 leading professional, political and religious Arabs of Jerusalem called for a cam paign of noncooperation with Israel. Alarmed, the Israelis canceled censorship of the sermons-and transferred responsibility for dealing with the Moslem religious community from the Israeli Ministry of Religion to Dayan's Defense Ministry, which...
Krupp died as lonely as he had lived. Staffers noticed that his silver-grey Porsche had not appeared at the company's Essen quarters for a month. Krupp, in fact, was dying of bronchial cancer, which had already advanced beyond cure when it was discovered late in June. By mid-July, he was confined to his 28-room "bungalow" near the villa. When he died, his only attendant was a nurse...
...Duncan's arrival at Inverness Castle. She makes some use of a follow-spot, but it is never obtrusive in musical-comedy fashion. Many of her effects would be impossible without the marvelous unit set designed by Rouben Ter-Arutunian--two converging cavernous walls of shiny but unsmooth silver, parts of which can swing in; and, hovering overhead, a structure suggestive of some enormous gray mythic bat, through whose wings lights sometimes filter. Ter-Arutunian also designed the costumes, which belong to no one period. For the most part they are of gray and black, though Macbeth and his wife...
...consumers will feel the new prices. Estimates are that higher silver will cost industry $80 million this year. Makers of photographic film, which takes one-fourth of the U.S. silver supply, will be hardest hit. Kodak last week announced that its black-and-white film prices will go up next month, though it promised the increase would not be "disturbing." This year's June brides may consider themselves lucky; most silverware makers will raise sterling prices by as much...
Even so, the Administration is not complaining about inflation. One reason is that, by selling its remaining silver on the newly ebullient market, the Government stands to make a handy $30 million to $50 million profit...