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Engaged. Glenn Ford, 61, perdurable, softspoken, intense Hollywood leading man, and Actress Cynthia Hayward, 30, his three-year flame. The pear-shaped diamond that the twice-married Ford earlier bestowed upon his bride-to-be was rumored to have cost more than the actor's $400,000 Beverly Hills house. Said Ford at the time: "I gave my lady a ring. A gentleman doesn't discuss how much things cost...
...blended together to create exhibits designed to captivate children on their own level. Instead of being locked away in glass cases, objects ranging from prehistoric skeletons to 19th century dolls are meant to be touched, tapped or even taken apart to discover what lies within. A model of a diamond crystal is so large that children can play inside it. The Boston Children's Museum, headed by Pediatrician Benjamin Spock's son Michael, takes its cue from a Chinese proverb: "I hear and I forget, I see and remember, I do and I understand...
...four straight Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League titles (1971-1974), as well as four District One baseball championships (1968, 1971, 1973 and 1974), and who had brought those four district champion teams to Omaha, Nebraska for the College World Series, was now suddenly deemed unfit to run the same Harvard diamond show...
Although formal black leadership is constantly harassed and suppressed, there are innumerable blacks who think, talk and, indirectly, lead. Mostly they are bitter and angry. Their bitterness is directed not only at the government but at the liberals, who are seen as more hypocritical than the Afrikaner. When Diamond Tycoon Harry Oppenheimer and other leading, well-meaning white businessmen set up the Urban Foundation to help improve the quality of life of black Africans, the reaction of many black spokesmen was that this would simply ameliorate apartheid rather than change anything basic. Says one black African editor: "Oppenheimer wakes...
...scene is the Winthrop-Mather tackle football game of 1975, Year 1 of the Winthrop intramural dynasty. A minute remains with Winthrop down by six. Quarterback Diamond Jim Durham, in one of his last mentally stable moments (he decided to get married a few months later), calls the "sleeper" play. As the team huddles up, players on the sidelines start calling madly that there are twelve men in the huddle, although there are really the legal eleven...