Word: emeralds
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...reinforced concrete is intentionally left unfinished for texture, though it is not as rough and pitted as the façades of the buildings in the Indian provincial capital that Le Corbusier built at Chandigarh. Interior pipes are not only exposed but accented in green paint, like streaks of emerald against the white walls. Even the heating machinery stands exposed throughout the building, often recalling the boiler room of a ship...
...Cartier's of Manhattan, which has been corporately independent of its Paris and London cousins since 1919, is more conservative than Tiffany's and more luxurious than Van Cleef & Arpels. Equally famed for custom-crafted goods at extravagantly high prices ($1,000,000 for a 107-carat emerald necklace) and a client list that concentrates on the upper registers, the U.S. Cartier's commemorates the shop visits of royalty with plaques at its entrance. In its handsome Fifth Avenue mansion, salesmen never push the merchandise; they discreetly "suggest...
Colorado is a state of vivid, sometimes startling, contrasts. Thousands of miles of its flatlands are rich with the emerald green of winter-wheat shoots; other thousands of miles are pasture, dotted with grazing cattle. But the western half of the state is ruggedly mountainous, the steep slopes necked with aspen and capped with snow. Colorado is a land of mining ghost towns and booming oil, gas, missile and atom-research centers. Men in cow boy boots and ten-gallon hats still swing off the cattle trains; but now other men, in Brooks Brothers suits, stride purposefully down the ramps...
...district than the First of Kansas. It is vast: its 58 counties comprise almost the entire western two-thirds of the state, stretching over more land area than all of New York or Pennsylvania. It has good-sized towns, small towns and well-populated farm areas. Last week its emerald green milo was near harvest; a more delicate green was presented by wheat shoots breaking through the rich soil's surface; still in olive drab was the stubble of the past wheat crop left in a third of the acreage to gather moisture and lie fallow for a year...
...great that a new breed of architect has come into being to specialize in them (e.g., Campbell & Wong Associates. Francis Lloyd). San Franciscans, for example, stream out of their fogbound city in the late spring and summer. Those who can afford the best have summer houses along the northern Emerald Bay area of Lake Tahoe on the California-Nevada line; the less affluent have cottages around the perimeter of the lake. Other rich Californians have summer houses on the magnificent Del Monte peninsula near Carmel and Monterey. More and more ordinary families, however, are moving into the rugged country north...