Word: diamonds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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City. Lyndon's gifts for Lady Bird: a pair of diamond-and-gold earrings, a quiet vacation trip to any place she chooses, and as a gag, a framed picture of Gunsmoke's Matt Dillon, inscribed, "To Lady Bird and my Saturday night competition...
...Game betrayed nothing of the fine effort to come. It looked like a depressingly typical Ivy contest. Yale's Jim Howard took Jerry Mechling's opening kickoff at the 3 and ran up the middle of the field through innumerable missed tackles to the Eli 27, where Steve Diamond finally brought him down...
...white population is English-speaking. Beyond that, the Nationalists feel that Anglo-Saxon liberalism reflected in such programs could subtly undermine apartheid-although a good packager ought to be able to find some pretty safe fare. Still, Hertzog accuses South Africa's English-dominated business community, and specifically Diamond Tycoon Harry F. Oppenheimer, of plotting to bring in television, which could mean "the destruction of white South Africa...
...plenty of merchandise that is tasteless or downright tawdry, but they are also selling more and more higher-quality, higher-profit items. Kresge's K-Marts now offer some 35,000 items, including such new additions as hi-fi sets and frozen string beans. Woolworth's stocks diamond rings at $99.95, electric organs at $79.95 and canned Scottish pheasant at $6.98, has become the nation's largest retailer of records (40 million last year) and paperback books (15 million). Already the world's largest restaurant chain (1,706 luncheonettes), it is also planning to serve liquor...
...Means, to whom she reportedly paid at least $100,000 in 1932 for the source of threatening letters sent to her and signed "Agents of Moscow" Means was never tried for defrauding Mrs. Shepard; he had already been indicted for cheating Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean, owner of the Hope Diamond, of $104,000 for promising to return the kidnaped Lindbergh baby. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison, died after...