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After dark, diamonds lost some of their charms. The women lived freely with the men, changing partners frequently. One girl of 20, called Penicilina, devoted herself exclusively to the oldest profession. Famed through the Gran Sabana, she wore five or six diamond rings, gold nugget necklaces and bracelets. Rum flowed over from Brazil at $30 a bottle. Men got drunk and gambled away $3,000 a night. But even the roughest observed the code: there were no robberies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diamonds | 3/20/1950 | See Source »

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