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Diamonds may be a girl's best friend, but for the police they are a major nuisance. Once they are stolen, they are among the easiest of valuables to sell. Even if they are recovered, the four Cs of the diamond business-cut, clarity, carat and color-provide only the roughest means of identification. In fact, identification is sometimes so difficult that police have occasionally been forced to return diamonds to a known thief because there was no proof that they were stolen goods. Now, Israeli scientists think they have solved the gem identity crisis with a system that...
...promised Gerald Ford in his first presidential address. In part because of Ford's failures to practice his four Cs, his old friends on Capitol Hill Ig^Vrvr)' is overrode his vetoes of twc V" ^~V-, ^ ning margins. The first veto involved amendments to the 1966 Freedom of Information Act that would give citizens easier access to Government documents. Only 58 members of Congress-31 hi the House and 27 hi the Senate-stood with the President...
...currently attending Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge and would appreciate a follow-up article dealing with too many Cs...
Perhaps deciding not to waste any of her remaining high Cs in what looked suspiciously like aria-to-aria combat, Callas withdrew into doctor-ordered seclusion until rehearsals start for her second scheduled Royal Festival Hall appearance...
High jinks and high Cs reigned supreme throughout the operatic career of the Danish-born heldentenor (heroic tenor). For 24 seasons (1926-50) at the Met, it was impossible to imagine Wagner without "the Great Dane." He sang in more than 1,000 Wagnerian performances-more than three times the total of any other singer-with no hint of diminution of the robust tenor that could swoop from a splendorous high to a deep, resonant...