Word: carats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...There just aren't any maharajahs left," sighed New York Diamond Merchant Harry Winston, 71. "I'm afraid there isn't a market for enormous diamonds." Winston has bought the 601-carat Lesotho diamond, the seventh-largest gem-quality diamond known, which was found last May on a tiny claim owned by Petrus Ramoboa, 38, in the South African kingdom of Lesotho. Ramoboa carried his stone 110 miles to the capital of Maseru, with government help sold it for $302,400 to a South African merchant. Winston, the third owner, called the Lesotho diamond "practically perfect," said...
...scales. The late Marie Macdonald had platinum-dust paint on her Caddy, but Elvis Presley has diamond dust on his. For further easy identification, Presley's car sports a yacht-style rear-seat lounge, portholes, gold lame drapes, gold curtains, gold mouton carpeting, gold-plated telephone and 24-carat hubcaps and tail pipes. The hubcaps on Ursula Andress' BMW, on the other hand, sport medallions that depict Ursula emerging from a swimming pool...
...Cover) Shed no nostalgic tears for New port. The great "Gilded Age" of the early 1900s - when O.H.P. Belmont's carriage horses used to sleep on pure white linen sheets, and William Fahnestock festooned the trees on his estate with 14-carat gold artificial fruits-has passed. But Rhode Island's "Queen of Resorts" still has its cachet and its names: the Auchinclosses, the Dukes, the Donahues, the Drexels, Lorillards, Woolworths and Hartfords...
...Other reductions will be substantial. Tariffs will fall from 1210 to 60 a gallon for beer, from $1.02 to 510 a gallon for Irish and Scotch whisky. Duties will come down 50% or more on such items as silk scarves (to 16%), diamonds over 1 carat (5%), bone chinaware 17½%, phonographs (5.5%) and nonreptile leather luggage (10%). For budget-minded swingers, duties on yachts over $15,000 will be cut from 10% to 5%, while wig and toupee tariffs will recede from...
...Greek islands with her ex-husband, Tanker King Stavros Niarchos, on his yacht Creole. This has been the most romantic divorce. Remember how sticky it was when they were married? Charlotte hardly ever saw Stavros, and the only thing she had to remember him by was her 61-carat diamond ring-and the baby, of course...