Word: carats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Francisco's ebullient Mayor Joseph Alioto was arraigned last week in Seattle on charges of bribing a Washington State official and using the mails for that purpose. Nothing daunted, Alioto stoutly maintained his innocence of what he called a "14-carat fake" accusation "filled with absolute falsehoods." Would he, despite the charges, run for re-election next fall? Alioto, noting that he had been "not just a full-time mayor but an overtime mayor as well," avoided a straight answer, but let his guard down enough to tell reporters that he had no plans "to resign over this filthy...
Cokes and Chorus Girls. How did the little-known Perenchio get that kind of money? And how does he plan to turn a profit? Perenchio put up none of the cash pot himself, but instead found a 24-carat backer. Jack Kent Cooke of Los Angeles. Millionaire Sportsman Cooke, now 58, had parlayed a $24-a-week job as manager of a radio station in Canada into an empire of radio stations and cable-TV companies. Today he also owns the Los Angeles Lakers (basketball) and Kings (hockey), and is part owner of the Washington Redskins (football). Cooke made...
Falk has a splendid time either muscling the opposition in Vegas or quaking before the elegant threats of a capo from New York. Gena Rowlands (Mrs. Cassavetes outside the movies) does the tough-but-tender-broad routine with such wistful sexiness that her heart of gold is almost 24-carat. When she and Cassavetes play a boisterous reunion scene, the film, however briefly, is transformed from flyweight entertainment into something true and touching...
...trade. According to Moshe Schnitzer, the 49-year-old Israeli exporter who is president of the World Federation of Diamond Bourses, global sales have dropped by 30% so far in 1970. But Israel has done better than its competitors because it concentrates on the smaller stones, about one carat or less, which are becoming the most popular ones, particularly in the U.S. and Japan. Israel's gem exports have declined only 11% this year...
...take the cake," "Never darken my door again unless it's for keeps," and "Which is worse, the heart abused or the heart unused?" For those who cannot answer that question, the film provides a clue: when the boy friend finally arrives with a divorce decree, ten-carat ring and oleaginous smirk, Fran decides that Real Love, after all, is the only game in town...