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...LIFE, Diamond...
BABY ON BOARD or CHILD ON BOARD, proclaim the yellow, diamond-shaped placards that adorn the rear windows of more and more cars across the U.S. Is this a parody of overprotective parenting? Not according to the thousands of folks who have been buying the signs for $2 to $3 each and consider them useful protection for their children. Made primarily by Safety First Inc. of Chestnut Hill, Mass., the signs are selling especially fast in traffic-choked metropolitan areas from San Francisco to Boston. But many drivers find the baby on board message annoying, and entrepreneurs with a sarcastic...
...home alone, Dwight devised a variety of phantom baseball games, sometimes flipping ordinary playing cards. Nobody else was ever able to make much sense of it, but he could always see a diamond. "I was a daydreamer," he confesses. "When I'd step into the Little League batter's box, I'd think, 'I'm Pete Rose, I'm Al Kaline.' " For hitting two home runs in a forgotten spring-training game 15 years ago at Lakeland, Detroit's Hall of Fame rightfielder is Gooden's ideal still. "I just fell in love with him for the way he played...
...colossally vulgar display, ostentation on an imperial scale. The Emperor Elagabalus, it is said, ordered his slaves to bring him 10,000 lbs. of cobwebs. When they finished the task, Elagabalus observed, "From this, one can understand how great a city is Rome." Louis XIV of France wore a diamond-covered coat that, at the turn of the 18th century, was worth a dazzling 14 million francs: the Sun King got up in the splendors of Liberace...
...protect society in The Crimson's decision not to run the ad. Simply, we could not tacitly support something which was so abhorrent to the majority of Crimson editors. We would not dare to insult Blacks by running an ad suggesting that they come to work in the diamond mines in South Africa, and we will not insult the women and men on The Crimson who regarded it that seriously...