Word: silver
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stars twinkled once again over the dance floor, and haute coutured fundaments warmed the zebra-striped banquettes as Manhattan's El Morocco reopened its doors to the oglers and the ogled. There were plenty of oldtime international set pieces-Paulette Goddard flashing rubies and diamonds, Hope Hampton flashing silver sequins, Aristotle Onassis flashing Jacqueline. But there were signs, too, that the times they are achanging. A disk jockey has replaced the orchestra. Dinner is a prix fixe $8.50-less than the average tip in the Elmo...
Abraham S. Silver, one of the American Civil Liberties Union attorneys presenting the students' case, said yesterday that the court would have to decide whether a state-owned college may bar an organization with violent political tendencies and whether an organization may be barred without sufficient proof of its violent intentions...
...case began in 1969, when eight students at the Bridgeport campus sought official recognition for their group. Although the group would be called the "Students for a Democratic Society," the student insisted that it would not be under the control of the national S.D.S. Silver said that the tone of the group's political views was distinctly non-violent...
...their Supreme Court appeal, the students asserted that a college should not be permitted to ban a political group unless there was clear evidence that the group would threaten campus order. According to Silver, the college's president has conducted himself arbitrarily, acting without evidence and thus denying due process...
Eventually, as stockpiles of silver begin to decline, the price of silver seems certain to rise. And yet, as so many speculators have learned to their sorrow, the inscrutable silver market is a law unto itself. Right now, researchers are avidly seeking substitutes for silver in the manufacture of film, which accounts for 25% of its industrial demand. If they are successful, the silver market will shudder through still another convulsion...