Word: diamonds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this is a result of what happened when the roof caved in on the U.S. building empire of Hal Braxton Hayes. He was the superbuilder who once put up a house in 34 minutes, a bachelor who made millions, the fiance who gave Zsa Zsa Gabor a 45-carat diamond (which she uncharacteristically returned when their two-month engagement ended), the flamboyant party giver who once was the premier playboy of the Western whirl...
...their shot making. No less dapper but far more subdued, both showed up last week at the Metropolitan Golf Writers Association dinner in Manhattan in well-tailored dark business suits. But at another dinner in Rochester, Palmer (TIME Cover, May 2) picked up a gaudy accessory: the $10,000 diamond-studded Hickok Belt awarded him as the outstanding professional athlete...
...break free from tradition in 1921, when he became an instructor in theory at the Cleveland Institute, where he worked under Ernest Bloch. Since then, Composer Sessions, now teaching at Princeton, has sent forth from his classroom some of the most promising names in U.S. music-Leon Kirchner, David Diamond, Andrew Imbrie, Milton Babbitt...
...Diamond Pattern. U.S. experts, the story went, were still unsure whether the Soviet astronauts had perished on the launching pad or while the rocket was soaring into space-and meanwhile a new mystery was in the making. Four Russian missile tracking ships were spotted on picket duty in the Pacific, deployed in a vast diamond pattern that has been observed only once before-when Khrushchev was on his way to the U.N. But in Moscow, the scientific secretary of the Academy of Sciences, Yevgeny Fedorov, solemnly warned last week: "Much time is still needed to ensure complete safety...
...18th century citizen wrote memoirs much as his 20th century descendant writes income tax returns-as a matter of course, and with considerable imagination. Author Mossiker has made clever use of these circumstances in retelling the story of the famed diamond necklace theft that threw France into an uproar during the reign of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. The reader is invited to discover the truth of the affair-something never established beyond doubt-from a crosscutting of contradictory memoirs and trial briefs, most of them entertainingly libelous. The puzzle is a good one, although the passages selected...