Word: diamonds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bates's last president, Lester Martin. Goldsmith is also president of Mojud Co., will keep both jobs. London born, he migrated to Brooklyn after World War I, started as a sample boy in a hosiery firm, by 30 owned his first mill. In 1940 he bought the Diamond hosiery firm (150 employees), sold it in 1954 (sales: $8,000,000; employees: 1,500) to head lingerie-making Julius Kayser & Co. for three years, moved on to Mojud last month...
...crown is an iridescent fountain of bubbling jewels. Diamonds spill and shimmer like droplets of moonlight. At its pinnacle, a huge, rough-cut ruby stares like an evil red eye. The diamond crown of Peter the Great is one of 80-odd superb photographic still lifes of the Kremlin's quasi-barbaric, Byzantine splendors, caught with eloquent precision by David Douglas Duncan's camera. This glittering hoard-jeweled scepters and prayer books, imperial gowns and priestly vestments, carriages and thrones-was buried art treasure until Duncan wangled Khrushchev's permission in 1956 to roam the Kremlin...
...even bigger by exporting his smart sell. Last week he was off to London to give aid and comfort to BBDO's first overseas branch. He spent a night on the town, wrote a presentation before dawn, and sewed up a new campaign for Britain's Double Diamond beer before lunch...
...Goren's astonishment, Moyse led the diamond king, with the notion that it was a brilliant and unorthodox play. Declarer Harmon threw off a spade in the dummy, winning the first trick with his ace, played the queen and jack of diamonds (discarding two more spades in dummy), and went on to make the contract, losing only West's two trumps and the spade...
...Touré's Guinea, which voted itself out of the French Community a year and a half ago, Israeli diamond interests formed a partnership with the government to market the output of Guinea's diamond mines...