Word: diamonds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...penance by prostrating himself across the doorway of his abbey's refectory or sanctuary. As a substitute for the spoken word, a rudimentary sign language is the custom. For example, two fists struck against each other vertically means "work"; the index fingers and thumbs formed into a diamond signifies "bread." But in today's complex world, with Trappists operating farms and small industries, sign language is not enough. Says one Catholic prelate: "A few years ago we still used horses, but how is a monk supposed to explain a breakdown of his tractor to a mechanic in sign...
...Greek islands with her ex-husband, Tanker King Stavros Niarchos, on his yacht Creole. This has been the most romantic divorce. Remember how sticky it was when they were married? Charlotte hardly ever saw Stavros, and the only thing she had to remember him by was her 61-carat diamond ring-and the baby, of course...
...gives Harry Oppenheimer, 58, chairman of the board of De Beers Consolidated Mines, Ltd., a leeway of personal expression unknown to most South Africans. Taking on the additional job of chancellor of multiracial Cape Town University, which numbers 266 blacks and Coloreds among its 6,392 students, the powerful diamond king coolly defended "the right of the university to run its own affairs"-despite the Vorster government's intensified campaign to force apartheid in all campus extracurricular activities. Said Oppenheimer: "What is the use of a civilization if we are not prepared to share it with men and women...
Early on St. Patrick's Day in 1962, an armed robber snatched $363 from the Diamond Cab Co. in Baltimore. Hearing cries of "Holdup," two cabbies trailed the gunman to 2111 Cocoa Lane and called police to the house. Mrs. Bennie Joe Hayden let them in; upstairs they found her husband undressed, in bed. One cop found a pistol and a shotgun in a toilet water tank; another found Hayden's clothes in a washing machine. Though the loot was never found, a robbery eyewitness and the pursuing cab drivers identified Hayden's clothes, which were deemed...
Harvard baseball fans who marvelled at the fluid play of first baseman Bob Welz last year will get their first chance this year to see the Crimson junior on the diamond, this weekend -- at Fenway Park. The lure of money and a professional career pulled Welz away from the Crimson pinstripes into the Detroit organization. And the same bait, in bigger doses, will probably mean that Cambridge sports fans have only two more weeks to watch pitching sensation Ray Peters plying his trade in the college circuit...