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Last year, when the price of gold skyrocketed, leading class-ring companies were ready with nickel, chrome and stainless-steel substitutes. In an attempt to retain some glamour, manufacturers have given the alloys exotic trade names like Ultrium and Siladium. Salesmen now proudly point out that the gold substitutes resist tarnish or dents and will not leave rings around the finger. Says R. Lyman Wood, group vice president of Lenox Inc., an industry leader: "You can drop it or step on it. You can even wear it playing football...
...order submitted in January to Miami's Bond Plumbing Supply Inc. seemed fit for King Louis XIV: a custom-made sunken bathtub, a sink with 24-karat gold-plated faucets, pastel blue toi lets, a "harvest gold" bidet with chrome-plated trim, even a portable Jacuzzi. But when Carol Cherrey, office manager and taxpayer, saw the name on the $8,934 or der, she said she "blew my stack." The deluxe fixtures were ostensibly ordered for a vocational instruction class at MacArthur South High School. Yet MacArthur, a school for 235 troubled youths, had no plumbing class...
...diplomacy by other means. Since 1973 oil producers have openly used their petroleum weapon to further their Middle East political objectives. Last year Nigeria introduced natural resources trade-offs by threatening to cut oil exports to the U.S. if the Carter Administration lifted the American boycott on chrome imports from racially troubled Zimbabwe Rhodesia. Both the possibility of other OPEC-type raw material cartels and Soviet economic retaliation against the U.S. have begun to worry the experts. Warns Harry J. Gray, chairman of United Technologies: "The minerals situation is similar to oil. Without an intelligent national minerals policy...
...scriptwriting that sustains Being There is missing from Electric Horseman. Willy Nelson, the singer, has the best line in Electric Horseman. Sunning in a cafe near Caesar's Palace he plans to get "a bottle of tequilla and keno girl who can suck the chrome off a trailer hitch." Nelson wrote that himself and the slick script of this Hollywood romance rarely matches the rugged quality of his improvisation. Indeed the film suffers from the same slickness and image-mongering that it purports to criticize...
...noon, he is aboard his 55-ft. sloop Curragh, which he treats the way a teenager nurses his first automobile. Kennedy will hastily grab a rag to wipe a thumbprint off a chrome fitting or to polish the brass. Once Ethel dropped a deviled egg on the teak deck. Kennedy frowned as she wiped up. "I'll bet we don't get invited back tomorrow," she murmured to a companion. She was right...