Word: diamonde
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...Christmas past, Naomi Judd, a local girl made very good indeed, went back home to Ashland, Ky. She stopped off at the white bungalow where she had been raised, then moved on to Jane's beauty salon on 13th Street to "get a manicure, now that I have this diamond ring." At 39, Naomi Judd had no great familiarity with gems or with manicures--this was her first--and she was barely getting accustomed to celebrity. "I heard you were making it big as a singer, and I pictured you in a gingham dress," said a friend who was also...
...carry any air-to-ground weapons you can think of," Martin is saying, ticking off a laundry list. "The mission computer knows the ordnance you've got onboard. It knows bomb ballistics and range. The information comes on the HUD with a symbol--a little diamond over the target, just like an Atari video game. In the CCIP [continuously computed impact point] mode, your job is to put the diamond over the target, hit the pickle button and bombs come off. And we hit. Well, within...
...including China) to become what the promoters modestly proclaim is the "Supermodel of the World." The contest, once known less grandiosely as "Face of the Eighties," is conducted annually by the Eileen Ford modeling agency, which will now award Monica a three-year $250,000 contract, a $10,000 diamond pendant and a $6,500 fox fur. The Toronto ninth-grader hopes eventually to break into the movies, but is satisfied for the moment with the profession she has been practicing for all of eight months. "The best part is the end result, seeing your picture," she says. Schnarre...
...Chapel at Windsor. After a walkabout in the town, the Queen repaired to Windsor Castle for lunch, then drove to Buckingham Palace to watch 6,000 schoolchildren sing "Happy Birthday" and wave some 120,000 daffodils. Then the birthday Queen changed into an evening gown and her favorite diamond tiara for a gala "Fanfare for Elizabeth" at Covent Garden, featuring the likes of Placido Domingo, Gelsey Kirkland and a special ballet, created by Sir Frederick Ashton and based on an incident from the Queen's childhood. A grand start to be sure, considering the "official" bash won't come until...
...Ilyich Lenin is ahead of Samantha Smith, but the gap may be narrowing. Since her death in a 1985 plane crash, the name of the Maine schoolgirl, who visited the Soviet Union in 1983 at the invitation of Communist Party Chief Yuri Andropov, has been affixed to a Siberian diamond, a hybrid violet developed in Lithuania, a street in Yalta and a five-kopeck postage stamp. The homage reached new heights last week with the dedication of Mount Samantha Smith, a 13,000-ft. peak in the central Caucasus just north of the Turkish and Iranian borders...