Word: crystallizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scuffing a shovel in the dirt might produce treasures to dream about. To prove it, communities like Diamantina, Turmalina, Esmeralda, Ametista dot the country. Last week the scene was Cristalina (pop. 3,800), an interior town some 60 miles south of Brasilia, once the center of a fabulous quartz-crystal boom and now devoted largely to agriculture and cattle raising...
...Farm. Last month two wandering prospectors stumbled on a 13-lb. hunk of white crystal on a 1,900-acre farm near Cristalina and hurried into town with the news. The reaction resembled The Gold Rush. The mayor, notary public, pharmacist and priest raced to the farm with the rest of the citizens hot on their heels. Laborers in nearby Brasilia threw aside their hods and streamed down the highway; so did lawyers, senators, civil servants, housewives and doctors...
...Chaffee grabbed 10th place in the cross-country and Steve Blodgett took the 15th spot in the slalom last week as they represented Harvard at the NCAA Skiing Championships at Crystal Mountain, Washington...
...Chaffee and Steve Blodgett will in the National Collegiate ski championships which began yesterday Crystal, Washington, and will continue through tomorrow. The entire Harvard team qualified for the Nationals by placing fifth in the Eastern meet at Middlebury, but is unable to attend en masse be of a lack of funds. Chaffee and Blodgett have been sent as special competitors...
Next to sex, says Dawn, "souvenir-ing" is the most popular Olympic pastime. After those same 1958 Empire Games, there was a reception at which Australian lady athletes "hitched up their skirts and tucked silver pepper and salt shakers and crystal wineglasses into the tops of their stockings or inside their girdles." Flags are particularly coveted: at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, Dawn herself stole a five-ring Olympic banner from the Imperial Palace Grounds, was tackled by pursuing cops as she tried to dive into the palace moat. When police found out who she was, they made her a present...