Word: silver
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Queen of the mother country will appear in Washington, Philadelphia and elsewhere - though not until a couple of days after the main event. The elfin pop singer Elton John will come to a Boston Bicentennial concert tricked out as the Statue of Liberty in silver-sequined robe. Italian Americans in Rome, N.Y., will celebrate with one of history's biggest spaghetti dinners - 600 Ibs. of pasta and 600 Ibs. of sausage for a crowd of up to 3,000. For 76 consecutive hours, the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights will be on display...
...visit their own major cities in this Bicentennial season, they are being surprised, delighted, heartened and even awed by what they see. There is hardly a downtown that is not offering a glittering new face, a startling new profile. In Atlanta, a round 723-ft. tower soars like a silver silo above the Georgia heartland. In Los Angeles, the flat megalopolis that was supposed to spread ever outward, new towers sprout like asparagus. Windswept Oklahoma City, a dramatic vertical statement in the horizontal world of the Western plains, strikes the eye like a mini-Manhattan. Denver's Skyline project...
Trying to move TIME two centuries back presented problems. A typical one: how to explain what 18th century money was worth. Answer: the 1776 dollar, which meant either the Spanish silver dollar or Continental paper redeemable in Spanish silver, would be worth, on the basis of new U.S. Commerce Department figures, about eleven of today's dollars, and the pound sterling about 50 dollars...
...Congress began issuing the bills last June. Since the Government has promised to redeem them in Spanish silver dollars-the most popular coin circulating-they have been given the Spanish name: dollar...
...murdered after 86 days by the unreformable Praetorian Guard. This garrison of swaggerers, who for a time held the real power in Rome, then insolently auctioned off the imperial throne to a wealthy Senator named Didius Julianus, who offered each guard the equivalent of some ?200 in silver. He ruled in increasing confusion for 66 days before being beheaded...