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Diamonds may be a girl's best friend, but for the police they are a major nuisance. Once they are stolen, they are among the easiest of valuables to sell. Even if they are recovered, the four Cs of the diamond business-cut, clarity, carat and color-provide only the roughest means of identification. In fact, identification is sometimes so difficult that police have occasionally been forced to return diamonds to a known thief because there was no proof that they were stolen goods. Now, Israeli scientists think they have solved the gem identity crisis with a system that...
...yellow metal will probably come from middle-class conservatives in the Western states, where vestigial distrust of Big Government and its powers to manipulate paper money remains strongest. Yet it is far from certain that the U.S. will become a nation of goldbugs, sinking lifesavings into 24-carat bars and furtively stuffing them under the floor boards. Says Harvard University Sociologist Lee Rainwater: "Americans tend to be optimistic about the future, and when you believe things will turn out well eventually, you're not that interested in hoarding gold...
...paralyzed the country. The move gave him fresh strength from a new base of support in the middle and lower classes. Confident of his power, the Shah in 1967 finally decreed his coronation-after 26 years on the throne. Rather like Napoleon, he crowned himself with the 10,400-carat ruby and diamond royal crown. For Farah, the first Shahbanou (Imperial Consort) of Iran ever accorded the honor of being crowned, a special diadem was fashioned by Van Cleef & Arpels...
...rubies and emeralds to the gifts office were Betty Fulbright, wife of Senator J. William, whose Foreign Relations Committee drafted the 1966 law that does not permit officials or their families to accept gifts worth more than $50. The greatest surprise came when Hubert Humphrey turned in a 7.9 carat diamond estimated to be worth more than $100,000. Presented to Muriel Humphrey in 1968 by Zaire's President Mobutu Sese Seko, along with ten leopard skins from a Somalia official, the diamond has been resting in a Minneapolis safe-deposit box. The skins were sold...
...ends meet on $30,000 a year, she finally selects her sister's lover, Baron Erick de Savonne, an aging but agile French tycoon. Dolores nets a $10 million marriage contract-but nothing more. On their wedding night, the Baron leaves his weeping bride alone with her 60-carat diamond ring for the bed of his true love, world-famous Ballerina Ludmilla Rosenko. Susann denies that Dolores is a roman à clef but adds: "If Jacqueline Onassis sees herself as Dolores, she will admit I made her a warm, sympathetic person...