Word: carat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...minutes, the young men heaved like draft horses before finally relaxing their grip on the rope. Resnick's body slumped face-down on the sand. Jackie Spurlock, 29, quickly removed two rings from the dead man's fingers, methodically went through his pockets. The haul: a two-carat diamond ring, two wedding rings, a stainless-steel watch, worn gold Masonic ring and key, two dimes and five pennies, with a total value of $3,440.25. The four climbed back into the car and drove away...
...knew well that "for understandable political reasons" Kennedy would not emphasize his Catholicism, and indeed he has not. A photograph of the President with a cardinal "would cost Mr. Kennedy 10,000 votes in the Bible belt in 1964." whereas pictures of him with Billy Graham "are pure 14-carat gold, to be laid away at five percent interest till the day of reckoning in 1964." This kind of poll-watching calculation. Father Davis argues, may not be very courageous, but Catholics generally "are not troubled" by the President's careful stepping across "so many fragile Protestant eggs...
Hollywood, after years of profitably cranking out fodder to feed TV's terrible tapeworm, has almost relegated the theatrical film- once its 18-carat bread and butter-to the limbo of relics along with the two-reel comedy and the Mighty Wurlitzer. Last week filmdom's labor leaders, in an effort to lock the studio door after the horse opera had gone, enlisted the aid of the House Subcommittee on the Impact of Imports and Exports on American Employment to do something about the problem of "runaways"-films made overseas by U.S. companies. The hard fact...
Geometry Problem. The two films represent a total investment of $9,000,000-the best possible proof of Hollywood's growing confidence in Nat Wood. And with a contract calling for as much as $250,000 per film, she can afford the white Cadillacs and 50-carat trinkets so essential to the happiness of a top-ranking movie queen...
...lean years after World War II went almost entirely to the U.S. market. Their demand, on top of the slowdown in the flow of new diamonds coming from the Congo and South African mines because of racial and political upheavals, has driven up prices, e.g.. a flawless, two-carat blue diamond that retailed for about $3,500 on West 47th Street only two½ years ago, can now easily command $4,000. Furthermore, the great De Beers "Syndicate," which sells 95% of the world's total rough diamond production, still rations stones to dealers on West 47th Street...