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...designs of the new sculptured jewelry are beautiful [Dec. 18]. When I was 19, I too thought diamonds and other precious stones were gauche. Now I really wish I hadn't said dumb things like that...
...avoided by wise planning and careful allocation of resources. But last week the crisis became all too real. In scattered sections of the nation there were cold schools, unfilled jet-aircraft tanks, empty propane containers and a hasty scramble among high state officials to arrange emergency delivery of precious fuels. Just as the nation's utilities have been forced to conserve electricity in recent summers by staging "brownouts," so they and the fuel industry at large had to ration cold-weather heating fuel by enforcing a series of "chillouts...
...after the shattering, unexpected death of her brother. Virginia's desire to break with a past burdened by precious personal loss was fortified by her willingness to defy Victorian convention. Bloomsburysociety was by now in high swing, Virginia was one of its hostesses, entertaining geniuses destined to fame. Maynard Keynes and Lytton Strachey, and geniuses contracted to obscurity. Saxon Syndey-Turner. Bell reveals the Virginia of the Bloomsbury period to have irresistible, gay, irreverent, charming, flirtatious and independent. Admidst the libertarian affairs of Bloomsbury Virginia was also earnestly training for her craft. She read omnivorously, took up journalism, practiced writing...
Devout Harvard hockey fans waited in line last Thursday for up to three hours to buy the few precious tickets available for Saturday's Cornell game. With their appetites whetted by the tie with Czechoslovakia, they eagerly poured into Watson Rink anticipating a sweet victory over the Big Red from Ithaca--only to be stunned by a 5-2 Cornell upset...
...prime source of his wealth is a separate concern, Nihon Denken Co., which deals in the island kingdom's most precious commodity-land. Osano acquired the company in 1964 from Tanaka, who was too busy in his job as Finance Minister to run the firm. Though the operation was faltering, Osano shrewdly let himself be persuaded to buy and did Tanaka a favor by paying $6,000,000 for the firm, even though it was running $5,000,000 in the red. Since then Nihon Denken has boomed, and last year its real estate transactions and developments produced revenues...