Word: silver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Promptly at 4 p.m., two uneventful hours after the arrest, some 500 Negroes confronted a force of 1,000 armed police at the site. Half an hour later, Atlanta's silver-haired Mayor Ivan Allen Jr., 55, reached the area, and soon both sides were engaged in a savage crossfire of bricks, bottles and tear gas. Allen, a progressive, moderate official who is as protective of Negro rights as he is of Atlanta's reputation, mounted a police car to plead for reason. But no one, it appeared, cared to listen much. Amid cries of "White devil...
...hall at the rear of the chamber stood a large man in his late 40s. He had curly grey hair, swarthy skin and silver-capped front teeth. His name was Dimitrio Tsafendas, and he wore the uniform of a parliamentary messenger, a job for which he had been hired only a month before. Tsafendas was obviously distraught. At lunch with his fellow messengers, he had hardly touched his curry, left early without explanation. Now, as the warning bell summoned the Members of Parliament to their seats for the opening of the session, he refused to run a routine errand requested...
Mauve silk umbrellas were hoisted over the heads of General and Madame de Gaulle, while 200 dusky, nubile Cambodian maidens scattered jasmine petals from beaten-silver bowls in their path. The entire Cambodian jet air force-four null - flew past to take De Gaulle's salute...
...waters off Piraeus. Tanned and smiling, Greece's King Constantine, 26, had a casual rationale for being that far behind: "I haven't been training in Lightnings for the last two years." Besides, the King of the Hellenes had the satisfaction of presenting the winner's silver cup to a countryman, George Andreadis. Later, Constantine exchanged his striped boating shirt and sneakers for a more formal outfit, and rushed back to the royal summer home on Corfu to help the royal family celebrate the 20th birthday of his wife, Queen Anne-Marie. His birthday present? "A state...
There was Bill Bones and Jim Hawkins and Long John Silver; Blind Pew was flailing the darkness with his crooked Cane, and Robin Hood with his merry outlaws was routing the Sheriff of Nottingham's lackeys. As visitors to the Farnsworth Museum in Rockland, Me., soon realized last week, this was no mere art exhibition: it was a trip back through all the hallowed haunts of childhood, from Treasure Island to Sherwood Forest to Stirling Castle. The artist? None other than famed Illustrator Newell Convers Wyeth...