Word: silvering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WORLD BOY SCOUT JAMBOREE (ABC, 9-10 p.m.). Actor Jimmy Stewart, who holds scouting's highest award of the Silver Buffalo among his many accomplishments, narrates the 12th International Jamboree at Farragut State Park, Idaho. This special focuses on six scouts, representative of the 13,000 boys from nearly 100 countries who journeyed to the camp...
...Silver Spring...
Tricked out in such garish plumage as bouffant vermilion coiffures, patterned stockings and silver demi-mini-dresses, the new whore corps is aggressive, ubiquitous and expensive (around $1 per minute). In the past five years, three huge new hotels, catering mostly to out-of-town conventioneers, have deluged the midtown area with lonely, well-to-do customers. Obeying the laws of supply and demand, girls from Harlem, Queens and states halfway across the country have flocked in to mulct the ever-growing clientele. Many of them are blonde-wigged Negroes sporting the furled umbrellas that seem to be badges...
Because Sonny likes to have beautiful things out and in use, Marylou uses the silver cups and platters won by the Whitney racing stable for everything from caviar to sherbet. The same goes for the jewelry that Sonny loves to collect. As a result, Marylou has been a stunning adornment to every ball she has attended. Adding a special luster is the 1,900-diamond tiara, once the property of Empress Elizabeth of Austria, which she likes to wear for specially grand occasions, such as the opening of the Metropolitan Opera...
...closest thing to a Holy Grail in sport. "On no other sporting prize," wrote the late Everett B. Morris, in his definitive history Sailing for America's Cup, "has so much gold, technical virtuosity, brainpower and brawn been expended." The contest, not the old Victorian silver ewer, is the thing. In the demands it makes on boat and man, it is the ultimate, the very pinnacle in yachting. What started 116 years ago as a gentlemen's lark, has become a proving ground for technocrats, a vast public spectacle, an affair of national pride, purpose and prestige that...