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...royal crown was fashioned by Paris Jeweler Arthus Bertrand, who topped it with a 138-carat C.A.E. diamond. The crown alone cost $2 million; Bokassa's scepter and Catherine's diadem upped the jewelry bill to $5 million...
...Sigmund Diamond, professor of sociology and history at Columbia University, and Robert N. Bellah '48, professor of sociology at the University of California at Berkeley, both have charged publicly that they were victims of pressure and job discrimination while at Harvard during the early '50s. Both were then former members of the Communist Party. Since those allegations were made, several scholars have proposed that Harvard open its records to an independent researcher who could determine the true history of the University's actions during those years. Furthermore, several historians and sociologists of education have requested access to those files...
...girls need big diamonds," says Supermodel Margaux Hemingway, who boasts of being 5-ft. 12-in. tall. Nevertheless, a 105.54-carat diamond rocked her. "It was so big, it looked fake," she says. The brobdingnagian bauble called the soleil d'or (golden sun), owned by a private American collector, was shown to Margaux during the taping of a French talk show. As a ring of security guards looked on nervously, Margaux tossed the stone up in the air and caught it in her well-photographed white teeth. "I'm good at peanuts too," she said modestly. Are diamonds...
...remember both page one news stories and editorials on the topic. How then could you accept an ad of more than half a page in last Wednesday's Crimson from De Beers Consolidated Mines, possibly the biggest exploiter of black miners in South Africa? The prices for those diamond rings no doubt bring the firm quite tidy profits (probably larger than the ad brought you). And, no doubt, the company would like to continue making those profits and exploiting those miners. You're helping. Ladies and gentlemen of The Crimson, I think that's called hypocrisy. H.T. Werbie...
...having played this role once too often, turned into a grotesque caricature of himself.) Shirley MacLaine is appropriately touching as the tough-tender waif that Lemmon falls for, and Fred MacMurray is menacing in the uncharacteristically villainous role of Lemmon's sleazy boss. The script, by Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond, is sophisticated and funny; and although it deals with suicide, adultery, and the impersonality of the modern-day corporation, the film is remarkably cheerful...