Word: silver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...best-dressed-women list. One recent visit required walking five miles each way to reach a remote village, where the couple presented gifts of food and medicine to the primitive, opium-growing hill people, frequent targets of Red subversion campaigns. Their tribal leaders value nothing more than the tiny silver medals distributed by the King, and increasingly these days refer to themselves, thanks to the King's and Queen's evangelism, as "the children of the Thai...
...northwest, into the evening sun, escorting a slow, radar-laden RB-66 reconnaissance bomber close to the Red Chinese border. To Major Wilbur R. Dudley, 34, of Alamogordo, N. Mex., the first hint of trouble was the wink of cannon fire beneath his Phantom fighter. It came from four "silver, swept-wing and well-kept aircraft"-Communist MIG-17s, presumably Chinese. "I broke to the right," recalled Dudley after last week's action, "and pickled [dropped] my fuel tanks, and then I came up on this MIG just as it was making a firing pass on the rear...
...Silver Acquired...
...silver collection acquired in 1950 contains 357 pieces representing the works of about 100 British and American artists from the period of James I to George III (1603-1820). John P. Coolidge, director of the Fogg, has noted that this is "the era of greatest distinction in the art of British silversmiths...
Wick aserted that although other Boston museums have larger silver collections, they are not of the same caliber. "This is a collection of quality, of quantity," he remarked...