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HARI RAM SON, MOHAND CHAND & SONS, GOVIND GEMS, NP JAIN, RM BUMB read the signs on the shop stalls. Pitliya Jewellers has a table with a plastic washbasin filled with pearls. Jain families???members of an ascetic religious group that observes strict dietary rules?run the businesses; Muslims are the expert craftsmen. Later I notice a poster of Mecca in a workshop where four men facet lemon quartz in a weird green glow. Gauri Shankar Dangayach, production manager of one of Gem Palace's cutting units, leads De Taillac down several side streets with open gutters and into...
...reckoning their losses. It was a day of sweeping up debris, nailing plywood across jagged, broken windows and pondering whether to reopen. Alan Rubin, owner of the Radio Clinic discount center on Manhattan's upper West Side, told a reporter: "I'm responsible for 25 families???the families of the people who work for me. What's going to happen to them if I pull out? As bad as I got hit, there are other guys who got wiped out. What's going to happen if they can't reopen...
...usually kicking back a share of their take to the dons; some criminologists estimate that at least 50,000 hoods can be considered confederates of the Mafia. The Mafia is by far the best organized criminal group in the U.S. and the only one with a national structure: 26 families???five of them in New York City* ?of from 20 to 1,000 "button men," or soldiers...
They were tears. And the kids have bought it. On Christmas weekend ?largely from young couples and families???Love Story grossed more than any film in history: $2,463,916. It has only begun to bring in the money, but it has already altered the "new" Hollywood beyond ready recognition. The place where executives put away their cigars and grew sideburns overnight, the industry that was welcoming kids from U.C.L.A. with a Bolex and a two-page outline?suddenly, it is in show business again. Says Evans: "At Paramount we learned a long, four-year, expensive lesson. From...
Roman Nobles, Venerable and honorable is the association of the Papacy with Italian nobility. From five of Rome's greatest families???Borghese, Orsini, Odescalchi, Colonna, Rospigliosi?have come Popes. A prime social distinction in Rome during the late difficulties was between Blacks (papal supporters) and Whites (Quirinal adherents...