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...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 them to a multimillion-dollar ad campaign. As usual, the company's name appears only in tiny, sedate type in the ads. It doesn't need...
...nearly the speed of light. Some of its material slows down as it tangles with the flat disk of stars and gas that make up the galaxy. It is the parts that move out from the top and bottom of the galaxy that escape to form turbulent clouds that shine as powerful radio sources for hundreds of thousands of years...
Little Me has the spit-and-polish shine of painstaking professionalism. The most prodigious comic labors of the evening are performed by Sid Caesar as the septempartite suitor of Belle Poitrine, the All-America showgirl...
...author of volumes like The Seasons of America Past and American Barns and Covered Bridges. Sloane took the diary and dressed it out with verbal and graphic sketches, detailing the construction of a whole backwoods farm. Mere antiquity is not what interests him. Instead, he puts a shine and an edge on the tools of the pioneers, constantly admiring the care and skill of craftsmen who thought enough of themselves, their work, and the times they lived in to date and sign everything they made...
Their right hands raised, their hopes displayed either in the determined set of their jaws or the shine of their smiles, 17 U.S. Governors (out of 35 elected or re-elected in 1962) took their oaths of office. Among them were two pre-eminent possibilities for the 1964 Republican Presidential nomination: New York's Nelson Rockefeller and Michigan's George Romney. The contrasting styles of their inaugural addresses gave a fascinating glimpse of the vast difference in their political situations...