Word: silver
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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McCloskey even sees a silver lining to the crisis. For one thing, if driving is limited by gasoline rationing, cities will be less congested and also less choked by exhaust fumes. Moreover, he says, "the public will be made aware of the importance of conserving energy...
From Woking to Newcastle-and in hundreds of working and middle-class towns in between-English housewives were planning tea parties and lunches around the telly. Limousines were parked in front of smart stores throughout London's West End, while their owners shopped for silver trays and crystal decanters. Throughout the kingdom, pensioners were wrapping handmade doilies and dainty little handkerchiefs monogrammed "A" and "M." At Buckingham Palace a special office was set up to inspect and display the vast piles of gifts. The occasion: this week's wedding in Westminster Abbey of Princess Anne, 23, and Captain...
...left his entire estate to his wife, and they agreed before his death how their possessions would be distributed after she goes. Only the duchess and her bankers know the estate's value, which is probably well in excess of $10 million. This does not include the silver services and objets d'art, the superb porcelains, the furniture and paintings. Nor does it take into account such historic treasures as the desk from which he delivered his abdication speech at Windsor Castle...
Performances are tonight at 8 p.m. and tomorrow at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Other skaters who will be performing are Sandra and Val Bezic, 1973 Canadian Pair Champions; Ann and Skip Millier, 1973 U.S. Dance Silver Medalists; Dorothy Hamill, 1973 U.S. Ladies' Silver Medalist; Lynn Nightingale, 1973 Canadian Ladies" Silver Medalist; Gale and Joel Fuhrman, 1973 U.S. Pair Silver Medalists; and Juli McKinstry, 1973 U.S. Ladies' Bronze Medalist...
...medium-budget schlock like Skyjacked and Black Belly of the Tarantula; directors often charged him with philistine meddling, and he alienated many of them. Meanwhile, as Kerkorian's agent of austerity, Aubrey slashed employment from 6,200 to 1,200 and recently began shifting film production from the silver screen to network television series. Aubrey also sold off MGM properties including its record division, studio real estate, theaters-even Ben-Hur's chariot at a much-publicized prop auction. In September he announced that MGM would withdraw from the film distribution business, cut its feature-film production from...