Word: silver
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Silver Dollar Bar on Whittier Boulevard, deputies found the body of Ruben Salazar, 42, a militant Mexican-American journalist well known in the Chicano community. Salazar, for years a reporter for the Los Angeles Times, joined the Chicano-oriented television station KMEX earlier this year and continued writing a weekly Times column that often bitterly attacked racism among white Angelenos. Many of Los Angeles' Mexican Americans looked to Salazar as their spokesman and interpreter to the Anglos. There is a notable new militancy among Chicanos, inspired by the successes of Cesar Chavez in organizing California's farm workers...
Eckert put his house on the market and prepared to move to Washington, D.C. But no one was buying. Finally he hit upon an added attraction: with the house a buyer would get a 1953 Silver Wraith Rolls-Royce once owned by a Saudi Arabian prince. Total price: $92,500. At week's end, there were still no takers...
...While the others contain GB, a colorless and almost odorless gas that can kill within minutes, it holds ten pounds of VX, a far more potent agent. The container was marked with an X so it would receive special handling. But the Army had all the boxes painted silver to reduce the heating effect of the sun, inadvertently obliterating the X-and the identity of the more lethal...
...Christ, I can't imagine," says his friend, Producer Sid Krassman. But soon Sid has wrung three million out of the tourist-starved principality of Liechtenstein to help finance the monstrosity and assured the rest by signing up Angela Sterling, "the highest-paid darling of the silver screen - nailing a cool one and a quarter big ones per pic, plus ten percent of the boxoroonie, going...
...week's end the immediate crisis seemed to have passed. President Nixon, commenting on the inversion, found a silver lining to the yellow-gray smog: "In some ways, it was perhaps fortunate that the East Coast saw the problem in such a massive manner," he said. "Now we realize that we don't have much time left." Best of all, most New Yorkers did not blame nature for what was clearly a man-made mess. "If you live in your own smog," said a short-order cook, "you got to know it's yours, even...