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...myself, however, I prefer palmistry, for it is a completely unique system. There are about three billion people in the world today, which means there are roughly six billion palms. There is no single pair of these palms that is identical, which means that every palm is unique. If the reader will look, for example, at both of his palms, he will undoubtedly notice at least some differences in the conformation of the lines. It is from these lines that I can tell a great deal about a person...
...couple of years ago reading a book about Jeane Dixon, the Washington, D.C. seer who predicted and tried to prevent the assassination of President Kennedy. Apparently when Mrs. Dixon was very young she was taken to a gypsy fortune-teller who was astounded at the young girl's palm, for it gave every indication that she would become a great forseer of the future. Mrs. Dixon still has and uses a crystal ball given to her by the gypsy at that time...
...event, the story fascinated me, and I began to read books about palmistry and to look at people's palms. At first I said little and merely pointed out the different lines by name. Gradually, however, I began to notice a definite relationship between the lines and what I knew or was able to find out about the people I was examining. It was also at that time that I began travelling extensively along the eastern seaboard, and I was fortunate to meet several gypsies in Washington, D.C. and Baltimore. They read my palm and among other things indicated...
...this time I was already reading palms to some extent, and I read the fortunes of two gypsies. In both cases neither girl (they were 18 and 20 respectively) had ever had her own palm read, and they were impressed with the skill and accuracy I possessed even at that early stage. They were extremely helpful in increasing my knowledge and in revealing to me some of the secrets of the trade...
With such paltry exports as palm-tree products and castor oil, Dahomey cannot pay for the large quantities of French meats, wines, cheeses and "Gervais" ice cream that are normally among the prized imports of Dahomey's elite. Nor can its poor people, who live mostly in thatched huts or in bamboo huts set on stilts in muddy lagoons, afford the $3,000,000 presidential palace that its rulers have built, or the four-lane, sodium-lit boulevard that runs along Cotonou's seaside edge into an empty field of sand and weeds...