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...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...
Welcome to Hard Times is a movie composed entirely of other movies. Every character has been pretested in scores of scenarios: the evil gunslinger; the aging lawman, poor but honest; the frightened townspeople; prostitutes with guaranteed 24-carat hearts...
...remain a bachelor," he said after his 1964 divorce. "I've struck out twice and I've learned." Now he's differently inclined. "I wasn't in love when I said that," he explained, "and I am now." In Manhattan, he slipped a five-carat diamond ring on the finger of Actress Connie Stevens, 28, Broadway's current Star-Spangled Girl, reported that they will be married as soon as Connie's divorce from Actor James Stacy comes through...
...week one John Wina was asked to bend over and submit to the routine check when he showed up in Kinshasa fresh from the mining country. The law's probing finger produced six capsules of white diamonds. Kassanda's cops some how felt they had missed a carat or two. Over Wina's shrill protests, they applied a purgative, and voila, as if by magic, there suddenly appeared 60 more plastic capsules containing no less than 1,500 carats of diamonds...