Word: silver
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is hope for the hirsute, however. Evangelist Billy Graham, in New York City for a crusade at Shea Stadium, fingered his collar-length silver-blond curls and gave his blessing to the Age of Aquarius. "I don't object to long hair in any way," he insists. "I have nothing but love for those who wear it." Today Billy Graham, tomorrow the world...
...seat of their trousers. In response, others wave it with defensive pride, crack skulls in its name, and fly it from their garbage trucks, police cars and skyscraper scaffolds. In pride or put-on, Pop or protest, Old Glory's heraldry blazons battered campers and Indianapolis 500 racers, silver pins and trash bins, glittering cowboy vests and ample bikinied chests. The flag has become the emblem of America's disunity, and, in a land where once only wars abroad set it fluttering in vast numbers, the caricature of a new conflict is raging right at home. The old meaning still...
Lumumba Monument. Mobutu is very happy in the role of a grand chief. He flies around Kinshasa in an Alouette helicopter piloted by a silver-haired Swede, drives about in Mercedes 600 limousines and sails the Congo River in his yacht the M.S. President Mobutu. Besides his house in the paratroop camp, he maintains a palace on Kinshasa's Mount Stanley and lavish villas in Lausanne and Abidjan in the Ivory Coast. To counteract rumors that he is a neocolonialist at heart, he has sought to identify himself with his old enemy Patrice Lumumba. Currently he is building...
...independent divisions modeled on the General Motors system, became chairman in 1960 and raised Textron's sales from $383,188,000 to $1.7 billion before he retired in 1969. Today Textron has 33 divisions that make products as varied as Bell helicopters, Talon zippers, Sheaffer pens and Gorham silver. Textron at one point ran a cruise ship to Hawaii that managed to rack up staggering losses; Thompson had models of the ship made as a reminder to his executives that an acquisition-minded company could become too enthusiastic...
Like most monarchs, the florid, silver-haired financier was born to rule. His was a celebrated family of bankers who built their capital by lending money to promising ventures and taking ownership interests in return. By the time Richard came of age, his family had dominant holdings in the Mellon National Bank, Gulf, Alcoa, Koppers and Carborundum. Richard, who became head of the family in 1934, later added First Boston Corp. and General Reinsurance Corp. Minority interests gave the Mellons a resonant voice in just about every Pittsburgh-based company except U.S. Steel. The family's policy...