Word: jeweler
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...head covered with a cap of pounded gold and his body draped with charms, fetishes, talismans and armor, he looked like an Aztec god or a Shiva as he sat in his sumptuous palanquin at the sports stadium. Later, as 100,000 watched, the King danced, awkwardly, like a jewel-encrusted bear. Three times he fired his flintlock into the air, and was answered by the volleys of 400 muskets. Then he lumbered across the field, his mouth filled with green leaves, symbolizing his identification with the earth, to greet Ghanaian Prime Minister Kofi Abrefa Busia and the other official...
...rarity augments the preciousness of a jewel, how astronomically inestimable is the value of the flora and fauna on this globe. Will we then continue to give evidence of the sanctity with which we regard life by driving other species into extinction? Having read in your magazine that blue whales are being decimated to make butter [July 13]. I feel like laughing to hysteria and beyond...
...flashy week for pennyweighters-underworld argot for jewel thieves. Among the more prominent victims: Film Actress Maureen O'Hara, vacationing in Australia ($56,000 in jewels heisted from her Sydney hotel room); Singer Teresa Brewer (relieved in Las Vegas of a gold necklace and diamond ring valued at $5,300); TV's Virginia (Girl Talk) Graham ($75,000 in diamonds, pearls and sapphires missing from her hotel room in Chicago...
Like a massive, multicolored jewel with facets that only become visible from different angles, the mural totally encompasses the center's hexagonal-shaped auditorium in a changing panorama of brilliant colors and forms. "I couldn't say a word for two hours after I saw it," says Paris Op Artist Jesus Rafael Soto. Not all visitors are so admiring...
...profits, however, are made in the office up the warehouse stairs, where Papa and his boys plot some elegant crimes, like springing a fellow countryman (Alain Delon) from a locked police van. Delon has managed to wangle some inside dope about the alarm system at a big jewel show in Rome's Villa Borghese. Gabin sees this as potentially the biggest heist of all time. In company with a couple of American colleagues, he sets off with the clan on one of those intricate jobs that require split-second timing, a cool eye, a steady hand, and complete suspension...