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...pendulum of taste is beginning to swing in the other direction. To many eyes, there is nothing so gaudy, nothing so gauche, as a huge solitaire diamond-and there is nothing so exquisite as an artfully crafted bauble. A growing number of jewelry designers here and in Europe are creating a New Jewelry that depends on purity of line, elegance of form, grace of motion to make its uncluttered point. Using materials less rare and less intrinsically valuable than gems-silver, bone, ivory and wood-their work is stark, simple and sculptural. Encrustation is gone; design, once more, is everything...
There are a number of reasons for this return to unadorned simplicity, not the least of which is crime. "Very few people wear diamonds now. The crime rate won't permit it," says Jane Norris, proprietress of Manhattan's Sculpture to Wear, which features the work of such masters as Calder, Picasso, Jean Arp and Man Ray as well as younger artists in its expensive ($50 to $3,500) collection. Her competitor Cynthia Bhaget of Amulets & Talismans agrees: "What's the sense of having diamonds if you have to keep them in the vault all the time...
...most scientifically productive. In Scientist-Astronaut Harrison Schmitt, they will finally have the services of a professional geologist on the moon. The Taurus-Littrow landing site contains what may be small, volcanically created cinder cones; they seem to be miniature versions of earthly features like Honolulu's Diamond Head. The cones may well be remnants of what NASA Geochemist Robin Brett calls "some of the last belches of lunar activity before the moon turned off." Finally, Apollo 17 planners have scheduled a program of experiments and observation far more sophisticated than any of the earlier scientific efforts...
Bosomy ladies and men wearing carnations pass big red buckets around as the service ends. All those buckets of money march down front and Reverend Ike takes one of his quick, practiced glances at his diamond watch. While the people file out he climbs into his favorite Rolls, the two-tone rose one with a rose painted on the trunk, and heads for his next stop...
...boom now, Robert Smith, professor of history at California State College, is prepared to prove that it's mild indeed compared to the mania which swept the country between 1892 and 1898. In those days the army made pedalers out of cavalrymen, police speed traps caught "scorchers," and Diamond Jim Brady paid $10,000 for Lillian Russell's wheel. It has mother-of-pearl handlebars, spokes encrusted with jewels and-scandalous!-a custom-fitted seat...