Word: silver
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tall silver-haired man striding down the Washington corridor could have been the sleek candidate for the U.S. presidency that he once seemed destined to become. "Hiya, John B.," said a passer-by with a warm slap on the shoulder. Despite such joviality, John B. Connally, 58, was heading toward U.S. District Judge George L. Hart's courtroom to face trial. The charges: accepting a $10,000 gratuity for influencing President Nixon to increase federal milk-price supports in 1971. Three times Governor of Texas, and Secretary of the Treasury under Nixon, Connally looked tense last week at what...
...there is a silver lining somewhere in the clouds over New York, it may be that the city's financial problems have become so serious that civil servants and other New Yorkers are willing to accept sacrifices that should have been made years ago. Otherwise the nation's biggest city could become not even a nice place to visit...
Divorced. Peter Lawford, 51, silver-haired actor and former brother-in-law of John, Robert and Edward Kennedy when he was married to their sister Patricia; by Mary Rowan, 25, daughter of Comedian Dan Rowan, straight man of TV's Laugh-In; after three years and five months of marriage; in Santa Monica, Calif...
...years in all) or in exile. The rest of the time he lurked in a shadowy, hotly pursued underground movement. Even so, Alvaro Cunhal, 61, secretary-general of the Portuguese Communist Party, is surprisingly well known. A brilliant lawyer with blazing black eyes and a mane of thick silver hair, he returned from Eastern Europe to a tumultuous red-banner welcome only a few days after the April 1974 revolution that toppled the old right-wing dictatorship. Since then, with his debonair good looks, smooth manner and legendary reputation as a dedicated Communist opponent of the former regime...
When a visitor told him Alicea didn't look anywhere near 26, Silver-man smiled and said, "Okay, maybe he's 25, Rough game, you know...