Word: silver
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...without question the most dazzling state visit that Washington had seen in years. When His Imperial Majesty Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, and his lovely Shahbanou (Imperial Consort), Empress Farah, arrived at the White House for a four-day state visit Thursday, they were greeted by silver-colored trumpets, red carpets and a 21-gun salute that boomed across the South Lawn. Gerald Ford, the seventh U.S. President that the Shah has met in his 34-year reign, greeted his Iranian guests with the kind of warmth normally reserved for close and deeply trusted friends. Outside the White...
...bail out the impecunious city. He wildly criticized the President for displaying a "level of arrogance and disregard for New York that rivals the worst days of Richard Nixon and his gang of cutthroats." Varying the analogy, he added: "We didn't even get 30 pieces of silver." But Ford argued persuasively that he was acting in the best interests of New York. In his "Dear Abe" letter of rejection, the President wrote that lending money to the city or guaranteeing a New York note offering would "merely postpone coming to grips with the problem." Backing...
...Silver Showers. To prove this point, Matthiessen writes the novel (his fifth) as if he were on board the Eden and living on short rations. Every fictional resource is jettisoned except snippets of descriptive prose and huge chunks of West Indian pidgin dialect ("Dis de oniest place I ever see bonita on de inside of de reef"). He does not even allow himself access to his characters' thoughts. As far as this novel is concerned, they are what they...
...solid-state electronic technology that drastically reduced the price and bulk of calculators is now shaking up the watch industry-and producing a trend that defies both inflation and recession. "Quartz" timepieces powered by one-year silver oxide batteries came on the market in 1970, but as late as 1973 yearly sales of the devices were only 176,000. Then last year, despite a 12% rate of national inflation, manufacturing economics enabled sellers to mark down price tags from an average $118 to about $95, and volume jumped to 650,000 even as the recession deepened. Tom M. Hyltin, president...
...secret files going up in smoke. "The ashes were flying all over," reported a Vietnamese professor. "We knew that the British were not burning incense for their ancestors." Soon afterward, Ambassador John Christopher Wydowe Bushell, spiffy in a well-pressed safari suit, headed for Tan Son Nhut in his silver Jaguar. The West Germans, the Dutch, the Canadians, the Thais, the Japanese and the Australians departed too, leaving only the French and the Belgians?who maintain diplomatic relations with the North Vietnamese?and, for the time being, the Americans...