Word: pal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bestseller lists. This one takes his flock past the same datelines-Moscow, Papeete, Lambarene, Brasilia-that the Paar family, trailing minions, visited over the past few years. The writing has the flickering quality of home movies, for which John Reddy, the Reader's Digest staff writer and Paar pal who polishes the maestro's prose, must be held accountable. Paar himself is blameless...
Prince & Papa. Edgar travels the equivalent of ten times around the world every year, catches up on sleep by snapping on a black eyeshade and stretching out on a bunk in the company plane. A confidant and partygoing pal of several world leaders, he has become the U.S.'s semi-official ambassador to Ghana's Red-leaning dictator, Kwame Nkrumah. He also finds time to serve on three U.S. presidential commissions and to supervise the nonprofit Kaiser Foundation Medical Plan, in which 1,200,000 members pay a monthly fee for the services of 1,000 doctors...
...Brooklyn-born son of a mortgage broker, DiLorenzo made his first deal at 17. He borrowed $1,100 to buy a brownstone, which he sold for $3,000. In 1951 he teamed with Goldman, a boyhood pal who was running a wholesale grocery for his ailing father, to buy a 600-unit apartment. DiLorenzo considers it merely "human nature" that his rapid rise led the Government to scrutinize his activities a few years ago. "I had four FBI men following me for some time," he says with a smile. "But they dropped the investigations." Now DiLorenzo and Goldman...
...nothing to write home about. Besides, he already has more than one postmistress. Engaged to a widow in Altoona (Angela Lansbury), he has just ended an affair with Artist Patricia Barry, and is warmly entreating the blonde (Barbara Nichols) at the hotel newsstand to be his "secret pal" for the night. The blonde agrees...
...memory), transmits colors alternately and meshes them with a memory device in each set (see diagram). The system is made by Compagnie Francaise de Télévision, which is owned fifty-fifty by glassmaking Saint-Gobain and C.S.F., France's largest electronics manufacturer. Germany's "PAL" (for phase alternating line) system, made by Telefunken, is an embellishment of the U.S. version; it sends every other color signal in its reverse shade and relies on a complex receiver to unscramble the signals...