Word: jeweller
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...handfuls of gems, including the golfball-sized, 563.35-carat Star of India sapphire. Thus were recovered nine of the 24 sapphires, diamonds, rubies and emeralds that had been taken from New York City's American Museum of Natural History (TIME, Nov. 6) in one of the most imaginative jewel robberies ever perpetrated offscreen...
...abrasions heal overnight. Beards almost stop growing. In the 86-ft. Deep Cabin, the male larynx, in reaction to helium, produces shrill chipmunk sounds. The men listen to music, keep house, play chess, pamper a parrot, and begin to feel strangely detached from events in the surface world. Jewel-bright sea creatures hover outside the glass windows, coolly observing behavior in the manfish bowl. When divers venture into the abysmal blue depths to explore, they come upon sharks, barracuda, and marine life hitherto unheard of-all recorded in skillful underwater photography that magnifies even minute plankton into glittering monstrosities...
...keeps slipping away from her mother's umbrella shop to meet an ardent garage mechanic, Guy (Nino Castelnuovo). Guy goes off to the war in Algeria, leaving Genevieve pregnant. When she doesn't hear from him, she lets her mother marry her off to a sober young jewel merchant. One Christmas time years later, the lovers meet again briefly and find themselves virtual strangers. Genevieve is now a chic, prosperous Parisienne. Guy has acquired a pleasant wife, a son, and an Esso station he can call...
Give a little, get a little is a natural thing to think. Pope Paul VI, 67, had just decided to donate his gold-and-silver, jewel-studded coronation crown (conservatively worth $12,000) to be used in a fund-raising campaign for those "who suffer misery." Now, here was English Actress Dorothy Tutin, 34, holding out a 1623 First Folio edition of William Shakespeare, after members of Britain's Royal Stratford Shakespeare Company had put on a performance in the Vatican. "What a beautiful memento of this occasion!" exclaimed the Pope, taking it and passing it to an aide...
Hayley and her aunt (Joan Greenwood), vacationing at a sunny village inn, meet a spirited young English compatriot (Peter McEnery). Enter Eli Wallach, as the swarthy Greek villain who knows that Peter knows too much about a jewel theft back in London, and the plot begins to fizz. Peter turns up, with a bullet wound, in an ancient spooky crypt. Hayley skips to the rescue. Showing an appetite for danger that 007 himself might envy, she is bound and gagged in a rat-infested granary, makes a wild leap to freedom on the rotating vanes of a windmill, cracks...