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...1970s and early '80s Rickover received gifts worth "tens of thousands" of dollars, not only from General Dynamics but also from General Electric, Westinghouse and Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry-dock Co., all big Navy contractors. Among the presents: a $695 pair of diamond earrings mounted on 18-karat gold and a $430 jade necklace. Rickover says those baubles went to his wife, but that he passed most of the other "trinkets"-gold pendants, desk sets, ship models-on to Congressmen and then wives...
...karat gold-plated flask containing one-third of an ounce, Amouage, which means "waves of emotion" in Arabic, may be the world's most expensive fragrance gift. Even so, the list of shoppers who simply must have it threatens to stretch well past Christmas. Joanne Rose of Asprey, the sole U.S. distributor, says the store has been besieged with orders from as far away as Beverly Hills...
...biggest of the thefts reported to police took place in a room in the Dunster House G-Entry sometime between 8:30 and 9:15 a.m. on October 29. More than $3,500 worth of possessions were stolen, including two flutes, a piccolo, three cameras and a 14 karat gold locket...
Modern italic can be written with any instrument from a simple crayon to a 24-karat gold fountain pen (if it will write). But it looks best when written with a broad-edged pen. If the nib is crisp and the ink flow and paper are just right, italic writing gives its practitioners an almost sensuous pleasure...
...America, there were 2-lb. fruitcakes selling for 49?, and 4 Ibs. of mixed nuts cost 79?. A man's cotton-broadcloth shirt sold for $1.69, and a wool sweater for $1.95. For women, black leather oxfords cost $1.98, and a one-quarter carat diamond set in 18-karat white gold was priced...