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Champion gem hunter is a man from St. Louis who hardly moves at all. He selects a likely spot, sits on the ground, and peers at the bare earth. For hours, as the sun's angle slowly changes, he watches for a tiny glitter. It may be only a bit of quartz or a chip from a broken pop bottle, but when he sees the glitter, he dares not move his head. He just stares rigidly so as not to lose the gleam, while his wife, who has been waiting for orders, follows his directions and picks up whatever...
...picture at Baltimore is brighter, although a lot of the glitter so far has been in press releases. Steve Barber (9-6) is out of the Army, and he, Chuck Estrada (9-17), and Milt Pappas (12-10) are a youthful, effective mound aggregation. Robin Roberts (10-9) might have one more year, and that could be important...
...gallows. What matters is the compelling illusion of life as it is lived in an average anachronistic prison: the natural humanity of the prisoners and their guards, the subhuman system that makes them beasts and keepers, the soul-destroying hatred of either for other, the teeth that glitter cruelly behind every smile, the moral stench of slowly rotting lives, the wit honed to a cutting edge on iron bars...
...world's biggest and best private collection. Last week 70 items from that collection were on public display at the Cloisters, the way-uptown adjunct of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art. Some are less than 3 in. in height; none are more than 24 in. All glitter with the gemlike colors that they had when their usually anonymous creators made them...
...headquarters, where aged Havana leaf burns like incense and merchants converse in hushed tones, a change is slowly taking place. The De Beers diamond cartel, which has its Central Selling Organization in London and its production fields in Africa, has opened a discreet but energetic campaign to promote the glitter of diamonds to new markets. In the U.S., which traditionally buys one-half of the world's gem diamonds, jewelry has lost some of its shine-people who can afford diamonds often prefer other luxuries, such as trips abroad. De Beers is concentrating on the newly affluent Europeans, subjecting...