Word: silver
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seems only yesterday that she was a mere princess, but the British are getting ready to mark the Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II. The Queen ascended the throne Feb. 6, 1952, and official portraits of the royal family were released last week to mark the date. The main festivities, however, will take place in June because, explains a palace spokesman, "February is no time to conduct a celebration." The summer jubilee events will include parades, river pageants, bonfires and visits by the Queen to nearly every corner of the British Isles. The British Tourist Authority has issued...
...every silver cloud has a dark lining. Professors complained of students gazing glossy-eyed out of the window while they delivered lectures, and extensive congestion resulted when everyone rushed to the Harvard Coop to buy rubber shoe covers for protection from growing puddles...
...unpacked their briefcases in their new offices, the First Family quickly made itself at home in Washington. On their first Sunday, most of them drove eight blocks to join the First Baptist Church, which has about 50 blacks among its 950 members and was Harry Truman's church. Silver-haired Senior Minister Charles Trentham greeted the Carters with outstretched arms. Said he: "This church undergirds you and surrounds your family with prayers." Before the service, Jimmy and Rosalynn attended an adult Sunday-school class, where the teacher. Insurance Executive Fred Gregg, exclaimed, "Mr. President, you know this Bible real...
...Behave yourself now," Jimmy Carter admonished his high school classmate Virginia Williams in front of the white clapboard railroad depot. "And if you get in trouble, don't call me." Then Virginia, her husband Frank and 380 other Plains folk boarded the 18 red-blue-and-silver cars of the Peanut Special-an Amtrak train leased for fun and bound for glory. At exactly 1 p.m., as Jimmy stood in the windy 10° F. weather, waving a gloved hand and flashing the famous teeth, the Peanut Special began to pull away from Plains-the first passenger train...
...Zarem's p.r. schemes have been beauties either. His first plan for Pumping Iron was a muscleman show at New York's Metropolitan Opera House. "We couldn't get it for less than $35,000," he notes sadly. For the opening night of Silver Streak, a comedy involving a runaway train, Zarem wanted a black-tie dinner in the middle of Grand Central Station. When Producer Frank Yablans balked, the party was held, more conventionally, at the posh Tavern-on-the-Green-another of Zarem's clients...