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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...
...Gottlieb, who in 1958 took his doctorate in musicology at the Berkeley campus of the University of California, presenting a thesis consisting of previously unpublished 15th century cyclic masses. On and offstage, Gottlieb continually seems to be wondering if he really exists, drops great polysyllables and 18-carat clichés like in extenso and in medias res, which are woofed into Ciceronian syntax with words like "risible," "emolument," and "mentation." Then he turns around, describing the group's preference to stay apart when not working. "After the performance, it's Splitsville, Daddy...
...Queen's Necklace, by Frances Mossiker. One of the 18th century's best puzzles-the theft of a 2,800-carat diamond necklace made for Marie Antoinette...
...Queen's Necklace, by Frances Mossiker. One of the 18th century's best puzzles-the still not fully explained theft of a 2,800-carat diamond necklace made for Marie Antoinette...