Word: silver
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. James Barren Carey, 62, feisty anti-Communist union leader and onetime boy wonder of the American labor movement; of a heart attack; in Silver Spring, Md. To counter the infiltration of leftists in his United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers, Carey took most of the members with him and founded the rival International Union of Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers in 1950. He remained president of the I.U.E. until his defeat by the present leader, Paul Jennings, in a 1965 election...
Daredevil Assaults. This year the Administration's budget cutters have decided to suspend the most dramatic aspect of Stormfury's work: the efforts to reduce the devastating power of hurricanes by "seeding" them with silver iodide crystals, spread by planes flying directly into the storm. Such daredevil aerial assaults, which in at least one case−1969's Hurricane Debbie−apparently succeeded in temporarily reducing wind velocities by as much as 30%, will not be resumed before the summer of 1976. Then Stormfury's pilots will try their seeding skills on typhoons, the Pacific version...
...junked car. Should the necessity arise again, Hayes, 31, has ensured that he will have all the comforts of-er-home. While seven cars, including his gold-plated 1972 Cadillac Eldorado, rest in his Memphis garages, Hayes tools around the country in his latest acquisition: a 30-ft. silver-gray Cadillac limousine that can be started by remote control in cold weather. Included in the $36,000 price tag: a red velvet love seat, bar, refrigerator, color TV and stereo. Plus two phones and two electrically operated sun roofs. There's a closed-circuit TV intercom between front...
...Fons, the country's largest ethnic group, the King gets a small stipend from the national treasury. He gets by otherwise on gifts from loyal subjects as well as fees from camera-happy tourists who snap him in his royal robes and silver nosepiece-worn so that he will not sniff impure...
...defined. When it was founded in 1948, the World Council embraced 147 churches in 48 countries, and was solidly dominated by North American and Northern European members. Today it has 263 member churches in 90 countries. Four out of ten member churches are now in the Third World. At silver jubilee services in Geneva's austere medieval Cathedral of St. Pierre, the preacher who stood in John Calvin's pulpit was W.C.C. General Secretary Philip A. Potter, a West Indian Methodist and a black. When the cathedral organ was silent, Papa O'Yeah MacKenzie, a black drummer...