Word: silver
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Much of the collection has never been shown publicly. Royal Heritage, which starts this week on PBS, was prepared by the BBC as its contribution to Queen Elizabeth's Silver Jubilee last year. The Queen and several members of her family were persuaded to appear on camera and narrate generous portions of the series, with Sir Huw Wheldon, the former director of BBC television, doing the rest. Michael Gill, who produced such outstanding series as Civilisation and America, was in overall charge of the project...
Most residents of Lake Placid are enthusiastic about the Olympics and pleased at the prospects the Games could provide. "People are really excited," says Sheila Young Ochowicz, 27, a now retired speed skater who won gold, silver and bronze medals at the 1976 Winter Games in Innsbruck. "The competitive facilities are all first-rate, and they're a lot closer together than things were at Innsbruck...
...silver and ebony mace, an emblem of congressional authority, has been placed on its green marble pedestal behind the rostrum in the House of Representatives. Quill pens, symbolic links with a more genteel past, have been sharpened in the Senate, where they are available to any member. At high noon this Thursday, Jan. 19, Speaker Tip O'Neill in the House and Vice President Walter Mondale in the Senate will smartly rap their gavels on the polished desks before them. Thus will begin the second session of the 95th Congress, one of the boldest and balkiest in memory...
...point for prospectors, outfitting depot for dreams. It mattered nothing that a man could scratch and sift his way through grubstake after grubstake without success. The lodes were somewhere out there in the Rockies for the patient and the tenacious. The fevered sport of searching for gold and silver is the original version of "Wait 'til next year...
...result, the project stirred controversy as hot and heavy as a tabas-coed gumbo. However, as silver-haired Mayor Moon Landrieu, one of the dome's founding fathers, points out, in terminable legal challenges and investigations failed to produce a single indictment or even a documented charge of hanky-panky (though in Huey Long country it is hard to believe some politicians did not profit, at least indirectly, from the project). However, Le Maire insists, "Only politicians could have put this thing together. It could never have been built by a blue ribbon commission. Sure, we made mistakes...