Word: diamonds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...John Gunther's High Road (ABC, 8-8:30 p.m.). The author of Inside Russia Today turns his TV eye to Siberia, shows on film the operation of the trans-Siberian railway, the diamond mines at Yakutia, the emerging wealth and power of the region east of the Urals...
...write music." To Bernstein, the flute included by Beethoven in an early version of the Fifth Symphony's opening is like "a delicate lady at a club smoker"; The Black Crook, an early musicomedy, is held together with "spit and chewing gum"; tonality is analogous to a baseball diamond (with home plate as the tonic note); the opening of the third act of La Boheme is a series of "cold, empty fifths, raining like snowflakes over the stage...
...praised." Three times the black-turbaned Imam of Teheran asked Farah the question, "Are you prepared to marry the Shahanshah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi?" Only the third time was Farah supposed to answer "Yes," lest she appear too eager. When the answer was given, the Queen Mother placed a diamond necklace around Farah's neck, and the Minister of Court brought the couple two gold rings upon a golden tray. The Queen Mother and Farah's mother showered the couple with handfuls of pearls, gold coins and candied almonds, and outside, the cannons boomed a 21-gun salute...