Word: gem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...order to halt the smuggling, the Congo government has put major mining areas under martial law and increased the fines and jail sentences on contraband gem carriers. Kassanda is urging even stronger measures. "If not, smugglers will continue the traffic using their secret cavities," he says, "and all the fingers of the mines' police will not be enough to block the smuggling of our diamonds...
...School 201 somewhere else than right in the middle of darkest East Harlem. The Supreme Court ruled twelve years ago that segregated education is inferior education, and I.S. 201 never had any real possibility of being integrated. But there the school is-the city's finest, an architectural gem and potentially an academic joy. Common sense might seem to suggest accepting this separate-but-better education. Instead, many parents of I.S. 201 schoolchildren decided (as one sign put it) that HARLEM HAS BEEN BETRAYED, and with stormy picketing kept the showcase school shut for five days...
ROGER KELLAWAY TRIO (Prestige). A gem for piano lovers of all persuasions by one of the most versatile creators around. Kellaway can play full-bodied romps like One Night Stand (composed by his wife, Singer Patte Hale), tricky little capers like Sweet and Lovely, and moody ballads such as I'll Follow the Sun. He is at his most inventive in his own composition, Brats, in which he draws a fascinating metallic sound from the piano by randomly attaching nuts and bolts to its strings...
...Keyes's books are not really worth reading, why do so many people read them? The answer, to borrow yet another gem from the author's bottomless thesaurus, is not far to seek. Mrs. Keyes's disciples are predominantly women who prefer to take their history with heavy doses of high romance. The Keyes have...
Janet Leigh appears briefly as Newman's wife, and both the character and the marriage seem wonderfully out of place in Harper. Miss Leigh's performance--for all its brevity--is a minor gem...