Guinness Book of World Records - 1977 (OT)

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MOST SUCCESSFUL SLOGANEER : Jack Gasnick invented this slogan in 1929 and has sold 50 million buttons of it since 1950.LARGEST OFFICE BUILDINGS : Even though the Wall Street district of New York City includes many skyscrapers, they are dwarfed by the twin towers of the WorldTrade Center, built on the banks of the Hudson River. Each building has a rentable space of 4,370,000 square feet, 21,800 windows and 104 elevators.JAWS OF THE LARGEST PREHISTORIC FISH : This shark, which lived about 15,000,000 years ago, must have been 43 feet long.LARGEST CONTRACTS : Dean Martin (left) signed a 3-year contract for $34,000,000. Johnny Carson (right) is paid $3,000,000 each year for 40 weeks work.SMALLEST INDEPENDENT COUNTRY : Vatican City, a 108.7-acre enclave withinRome, also has a zero birth rate.LARGEST LIBRARY (next to the Library of Congress, which is the depository for copyright works in the U.S.) is the Lenin state Library in Moscow, U.S.S.R. Its 27,000,000-copy total includes periodicals, as well as books. CHAMPION LION-TAMER : Alfred Schneider is the only man to have tackled 40 lions simultaneously.LARGEST DOME : Crowning the Superdome in New Orleans, this dome has an outside diameter of 680 feet. LONGEST TUSKS : Weighing 293 lbs, and measuring more tha 11 feet each, this pair of elephant tusks from the Congo are in the Bronx Zoo.HIGHEST-PRICED DIAMOND ever sold at auction (left) was this 69.42-carat flawless diamond ring which sold to Cartier’s, New York, for $1,050,000, and which was almost immediately resold to actor Richard Burton for his wife, in October, 1969. The previous record was $385,000 for a Necklace.LARGEST DIAMOND (right) : The Star of Africa No.1 in the British Royal Sceptre was cut, with 74 facets, from the 1 ¼-pound Cullinan diamond.