Word: gem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Safety in Diversity. Philip Morris Inc. (Marlboro, Parliament, Alpine) has already begun hedging against possible loss of cigarette sales by diversifying. Some 20% of its business last year was in razor blades (Pal, Gem), flexible packaging and polymer chemicals. P. Lorillard Co. (Kent, Old Gold, Newport, York) recently obtained permission from its stockholders to begin diversifying...
Gulped Up. At sea, waves smashed the Liberian tanker Gem into two pieces off Cape Hatteras. One officer was crushed trying to launch a lifeboat; 33 others were rescued - including one frightened stow away. A Beach Haven resident saw the sea carry off not only his house but his life savings of $30,000 hidden in it. Tele vision's temporarily retired personality, Dave Garroway. much more fortunate, sold his Long Island house for $39,000 one day before it was gulped up by the ocean...
Some of its little, rough-hewn houses date back to the 16th century; its oldest hotel, the Monte Rosa, was opened in 1838, is a triumph of Gemütlichkeit at $8 a day; full pension, in high season. But like many another old resort, it is caught up in the new boom; in the past five years, the amount of hotel space has doubled, so that now the village can take care of 12,000 winter vacationers at one time...
...Avventura looking for La Dolce Vita, you will see no more than film clips showing people with too much money and too few principles, to whom everything is pointless. But you will also miss a story finely chiseled into a gem of photography...
...Indeed, the hate is running so high that three minutes after the curtain rises, the son is plotting to have his best friend push his aging parents off a cliff to their deaths. The play, like the family, is haunting and irritating, eloquent and garrulous, terrifying and petulant, half gem and half paste...