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Occasionally, there is something new under the sun or, in the case of a beautiful new gem called Royal Lavulite, under the earth. The deep translucent purple stone, known to mineralogists as sugilite, was officially classified as a rare gem in October 1980, and prices for the stone quickly climbed to as much as $1,000 a carat, compared with $3,000 to $5,000 a carat for the finest grade commercial diamonds...
...period just about as well as it is possible to and still be down, 1-0. The chances were there for both sides--Greg Olson hitting the crossbar, B.U.'s Tom O'Regan shooting into Wade Lau's glove from six inches--but the great defensive plays (including a gem by Lau off of Paul Fenton) were too, and when Fenton finally broke the ice at 18:21 it looked like merely the first blood of a classy, well-fought duel...
...lend their incandescence to the stage: Katharine Hepburn in The West Side Waltz, Claudette Colbert in A Talent for Murder, Anne Bancroft in Duet for One, Joanne Woodward as Shaw's Candida. And then, and always, there are the musicals. At least 16 have been announced, including one potential gem that begins previews next week: Stephen Sondheim's Merrily We Roll Along, directed by Hal Prince and based on the 1934 Kaufman and Hart comedy. With Company, Follies and Sweeney Todd, Sondheim and Prince yanked the Broadway musical into the Age of Angst. This time they have dared to move...
...store can be hard on a marriage. Facing that fact last week, David and Cathy Mitchell, both 37, owners of the weekly Point Reyes (Calif.) Light, put then: little gem (circ. 3,300) on the block. Asking price: $135,000. They won a Pulitzer Prize in 1979 for an investigative series on Synanon, the controversial drug-rehabilitation center, but such ambitious undertakings were hard to fit into their 70-hour, seven-day weeks. Explains David: "We are journalists, and the business end of it was taking up too much time." David will become a reporter for the San Francisco Examiner...
...Seaver finally threw a no-hitter in 1978. Against which team did he hurl his gem...