Word: palme
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...November 21 Clifford and Neustadt reported their progress to the President-elect and his staff at Palm Beach. After dinner, Kennedy briskly divided up the group, taking Clifford and Sorensen into one room, asking Neustadt to wait in another room, Shriver in still another. When Neustadt's turn arrived, Kennedy raised questions about some of the things his advisers had told him he must do as President -- receiving Congressmen, for example, whenever they requested an appointment. Neustadt said that there were few imperatives in the Presidency; he should feel free to work it out in his own way. He then...
SEVENTH ANNUAL BOB HOPE DESERT GOLF CLASSIC (NBC, 4-5 p.m.). Celebrities and pros tee up at La Quinta Country Club in Palm Springs, Calif...
...researchers had linked abnormal palm prints with no fewer than 19 disorders (counting many chromosomal mixups), including two more forms of mongolism, the absence of fingernails or toenails, webbing between the fingers and toes, and possibly phenylketonuria...
Last week, in the New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Achs and Dr. Rita Harper ran the number of palm-printed abnormalities up to 20. And although most such disorders involve chromosomal defects determined at the moment of conception, the latest implicated a viral disease. To get clear prints from the hands of tiny, squirming infants, Dr. Achs and her colleagues found that the policeman's inkpad and fingerprint technique would not do; instead they used a direct photographic method developed by New York's Philips Laboratories. The babies' palms were pressed against a prism so that...
Then there are five places where the normal palm shows what researchers call a triradius-a wide-open letter Y formed by the junction of three lines. The crucial one is the axial triradius; on most palms it is just above the first flesh crease where hand joins wrist. If, in both hands, it is higher up, closer to the fingers, it may indicate inborn abnormalities from rubella or other causes...