Word: crystallizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...help celebrate the Crystal Palace Exhibition (the first world's fair), members of England's Royal Yacht Squadron hit on a grand scheme: invite a U.S. boat to race-and give the brash Yankee upstarts a lesson in sailing tactics. The gauntlet was swiftly picked up by Commodore John C. Stevens, a founder of the New York Yacht Club, an ardent gambler and a shrewd sailor. The terms were tough: the course was laid out around the Isle of Wight, and Stevens' 102-ft. pilot schooner America was to race alone against the entire Royal Yacht Squadron...
Atlanta's Americana Motor Hotel offers tropical gardens, crystal chandeliers, shops, beauty salons and underground parking, and the city's Cabana Motor Hotel's new addition will treat its guests to copies of French provincial furniture, $140 bedspreads, a glass elevator-and split-level rooms. And at the Inn of the Six Flags, halfway between Dallas and Fort Worth, there is not only steak-dinner room service and vibrating beds for travel-weary bones, but also a three-bedroom Acapulco Suite with its own private swimming pool, patio, and fulltime butler-all for $100 a night...
...York City last week prowled a dozen inspectors of the Department of Markets, their eyes peeled as usual for butchers with a thumb on the scales or too much fat in the hamburger. But they were snooping-perhaps uneasily-for a different kind of quarry: the soothsayers, crystal-gazers, palmists and tea-leaf readers who gull money by the barrelful for telling people what the future will bring, and thereby are liable to prosecution as "disorderly persons." More surprising than the seedy collection of fakers and phonies, love potions and hex-chasers that the inspectors are turning...
persions on the legitimate science of astrology. There is a world of difference between scientific astrology and what the quacks practice. I despise crystal-gazers, gypsies and tea-readers, who fleece the public. Something should be done about them...
After fifty specimens of outstanding scientific value were stolen. The most serious loss was an uncut 84 carat diamond, called by Museum experts "the largest and most perfect diamond crystal of its size on exhibit in the world." Most of the stones stolen were not insured, due to their irreplaceable nature which makes insurance premiums prohibitive