Word: palme
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...genetic defect has visible, external effects as well as internal ones. The most obvious example: mongolism, technically known as Down's syndrome, in which there may be heart defects along with abnormalities of the hands-flabbiness, thickness, a short fifth finger and a "simian crease" across the palm. Several other genetic, chromosomally determined defects have comparable telltale hand signs...
...discomfort at the time of an occlusion. About two weeks after an otherwise undetected occlusion, the patient may have a hand (usually only one) that is swollen, shiny, discolored and stiff. The stiffness comes from thickening of the fibrous layer just below the skin down the middle of the palm. It may pull the fingers together and sometimes also downward. Skin thickening and stiffness of this type may be the signs of a previous and hitherto-undetected coronary occlusion...
...decision to venture into men's fashions. Yves St. Laurent announced last week that he will shortly open a men's boutique in Paris; André Courrèges is also planning a line of men's clothes. To go with wives' "Lilly" summer shifts, Palm Beach Designer Lilly Pulitzer is offering a new collection of "Men's Stuff" that includes flamboyantly printed "P.J.s" (Pulitzer Jeans) and Cuban-style quayabera shirts, worn with the squared-off tails outside. Valentino, who is Jackie Kennedy's favorite Rome designer, last month moved into...
...trials, provided they are conducted by a trained leader. Nude psychotherapy has achieved enough respectability to be the subject of a two-hour program at a recent meeting of the California State Psychological Association. Last weekend Bindrim started a new series of 16 sessions at a desert motel near Palm Springs...
This is a book that should give pause to the Pulitzer Prize committee that awarded the palm to its author for a novel that was stronger but not much better (Andersonville). The new novel's problem is simple enough: What happens when a twice-widowed white woman falls in love with her male mulatto cook? Pretty much what one would expect down on the Gulf Coast in 1854. He is handsome and graceful and goes by the name of Beauty Beast. He knows what to do with herbs and French sauces, and he can play Mozart and lesser composers...