Word: silver
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DIED. MONTIE MONTANA, 87, rough-riding cowboy who left the Montana range to appear in silver-screen westerns alongside John Wayne and Roy Rogers; in Santa Clarita Valley, Calif. A skilled lassoer of barnyard beasts, Montana was more famous for hitching humans: he roped President Eisenhower during Ike's 1953 Inaugural parade...
...branch constituted an earnest and convivial army of 4.1 million. Yet today those ranks are decimated. True, the group is still a philanthropic presence, donating some $750 million a year to charities. But its 2.1 million national membership, notes Richard Fletcher of the Masonic Information Center in Silver Spring, Md., is "the lowest it's been in some time." By which he means since around 1888. And it will plummet further, since the average brother is pushing 70. To baby boomers the Masons are a fusty memory. To the boomers' children, well, it's a philosophical conundrum: if a million...
...Satan will assure that Pol Pot's everlasting sleep is anything but peaceful [WORLD, April 27], then justice will have been served! KARA SULLIVAN Silver Spring...
...carrot was the "final status" talks Benjamin Netanyahu has long coveted. The stick? Well, there was no stick, and that, according to TIME Jerusalem correspondent Eric Silver, allowed Netanyahu to leave President Clinton all dressed up with nowhere to go Monday. Instead of hosting Netanyahu and Yasser Arafat at the White House, Clinton will be briefed by Madeleine Albright and Dennis Ross on their failure to get Israel to compromise...
...whether the White House is prepared to apply any real pressure on Netanyahu to back down and revive the all-but-dead Oslo peace process. Netanyahu believes that domestic political concerns make it unlikely that Clinton will muster the political will to turn up the heat on Israel, says Silver. The Israeli leader brings his battle with the White House to Washington this week, meeting with congressional leaders on Thursday. Bibi will find the legislators keen to impress pro-Israel voters -- Republicans were falling over each other yesterday in the rush to use the debacle as their own kind...