Word: silver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...well as anybody need ever play," said Conductor Erich Leinsdorf. The soloists who won these praises from such rigorous judges were not big concert stars but virtually unknown American students: New York City's Stephen Kates, 23, and Los Angeles' Misha Dichter, 20, both fresh from winning silver medals at the Third International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow...
...Killy at his own specialty: the giant slalom. By week's end, with only the men's special slalom and combined to go (and Killy favored to win both), French skiers had won five out of the six events, collected an even dozen of the 18 gold, silver and bronze medals awarded at the championships...
Pacifist Protest. Virtually ignoring the torrent of expensive wedding gifts, White House handouts played up the sentimental, homey and offbeat: from Uncle Tony Taylor in Texas, a set of six silver syllabub cups that had belonged to Grandmother Minnie Lee Patillo Taylor; Texas-shaped cookie cutters from Mrs. Jake Pickle, wife of the Congressman who holds L.B.J.'s old seat; from Mrs. Orville Freeman, a jeweled Pakistani nose ring, symbolizing female submission to her mate (who, vows the bride, will never become "Mister Luci Johnson"). The bipartisan House leadership took up a collection for a congressional gift, but Iowa...
...more influential-and few more mysterious-than California's Rand Corp., a private, nonprofit "think tank" located in a plain white building in Santa Monica. And of all the high-powered highbrows who have helped build Rand (for Research and Development), no one has been more effective than silver-haired, rough-featured Franklin R. Collbohm, 59, head of the organization since it was created under the patronage of Army Air Forces General Henry H. ("Hap") Arnold 20 years...
...University of Southern California graduate, he is so skinny (at 6 ft. 21 in., 160 lbs.) that he could paint himself silver and go to a party as a No. 1 iron. Geiberger started carrying sandwiches around in his golf bag when he was paired with Arnold Palmer in a tournament last year. "I knew I would never get near the refreshment stands because of Arnie's Army," he says, "so I had my wife make me up a lunch." He wound up winning $59,699 in 1965. Nibbling sandwiches between shots, Al insists, has a tranquilizing effect...