Word: crystalize
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...short year ago the great white marbled Hall of Columns in Moscow's House of Unions blazed with harsh floodlights for the trial of U-2 Pilot Francis Gary Powers. Now even the cascades of the crystal chandeliers were dimmed, hooded with red and white cheesecloth. At one end a string ensemble played softly. The great and near great of the Kremlin, including Khrushchev, took turns beside the flower-cradled coffin as a guard of honor. Long lines of clerks and students filed slowly by, many of them not quite sure who it was they had been summoned...
...York Telephone Co.'s Retired Club chartered a five-car subway for a trip to Coney Island this week). Jean's Silversmiths supplies fine silver place settings, to match the renter's own, at about $50 for a dozen six-piece settings, or fine crystal goblets at $24 a dozen (but the renter may have to pay $240 for the whole set if one goblet breaks). The New York Circulating Library of Paintings rents out its collection of contemporary works (Brackman, Segovia Jr., Purdy, etc.) for as little as $8 a month. And anybody who has everything...
Brigitte Bardot and Pablo Picasso excel in their arts, share alliterative names, dote on the South of France and enjoy worldwide fame-and that is not all they have in common. BB, when clothed, often wears a silver circle necklace with a pendant of Venetian crystal. PP, when he puts on a shirt, sports a pair of silver cuff links adorned with delicately hued beach pebbles. The jewelry is the work of a lithe Swedish girl named Torun Bulow-Hube, who lives with her husband in the tiny Riviera village of Biot and is known to a growing coterie...
...hamlet of Marble, high up on the Crystal River in the mountains of central Colorado, has a population of eight that is swelled by summer residents to 58, plus tourists. To the summer citizens, their tiny, white-frame church seemed last week to be a set-piece proof of Paul's point about the letter and the spirit...
...dowry: showers of every variety, both practical and kooky, pour forth the loot. Karla Francisco, 21, a fourth-generation Californian who is marrying Thomas T. Hammond, 22, at her family's luxurious hacienda, had a relatively conventional kitchen shower. But other brides have an appliance shower, a crystal shower, a china shower, a paper shower, a lingerie shower, a bathroom shower, and "vice" shower (liquor, brandy, wine). In Detroit's suburban Bloomfield Hills, Patti Bugas, 21, daughter of Ford Vice President John Bugas, prepared for her wedding this week to Mark Dowie, 22, a fellow student at Denison...