Word: palme
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...five months later they come back to me." In much the manner of the old Zen painters, De Kooning believes the image must come all at once or not at all. When his three-year-old daughter Lisbeth put her hands on the wet paint, he left the palm print rather than doctor the surface and destroy the spontaneous feeling. "I'm not trying to be a virtuoso," he explains, "but I have to do it fast. It's not like poker, where you can build to a straight flush or something. It's like throwing dice...
...seven miles northwest of Phoenix, he sells a house with three bedrooms, two baths, an all-electric kitchen, a garage and a 28-ft. swimming pool-all for $11,750. Long's houses, ranging from $8,975 to $25,950, offer extra space, glamour and luxury touches (gables, palm trees, sliding glass doors), yet sell for about $1,500 less than those of most of his competitors. Last week Long added yet another attraction: with each purchase, he will give a free acre of mountain retreat land near the Kaibab National Forest, 178 miles north of Phoenix, provide...
...gardening land. Louis R. Wasey, former ad agency executive (Erwin, Wasey & Co.), sold frs stockholdings in 1956 to concentrate on his Cat Cay Club, a heaven for well-heeled fishermen. Biggest venture of all is Freeport, a man-made harbor, industry site and bunkering installation 81 miles east of Palm Beach, Fla., on Grand Bahama Island. A $12 million joint venture of top U.S. Shipowner Daniel K. Ludwig, Promoter Wallace Groves and British Millionaire Charles Hayward, Freeport boasts a harbor dredged 30 ft. deep and capable of handling 400-ft. ships, and offshore refueling lines that can deliver...
...beginning on agrarian reform for the 800,000 country dwellers including landless guajiros (peasants) who live in dirt-floor, thatch-palm huts, subsist on the $3 daily they earn during the three-month sugar harvest...
Backgammon & Rye. Daily, Dulles got up at 6:30 a.m., bathed, shaved, read the Miami Herald and Palm Beach Post (the New York Times and Herald Tribune were brought in later), began to maneuver through an Ellery Queen. Breakfast was at 8 o'clock on the patio, with Dulles decked out in sports shirt, slacks and the hat. At 9:30 Army Captain Edward J. Kamin, an internal medicine specialist who had flown down in the presidential Columbine with Dulles and wife Janet from Washington, gave his patient a checkup. At 10:30 Dulles' capable personal assistant Joseph...