Word: palme
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nanorchestes antarcticus, a species of pink mite discovered recently near the South Pole, needs no fur at all to keep warm. But Manhattan's Mary Sanford, wife of Socialite Stephen ("Laddie") Sanford, winters at Palm Beach, and Florida this year has been chilly enough to turn even the minks pink. "Your jacket seems to have picked up a glow from your ruby necklace," Laddie remarked brightly to his wife at Palm Beach's Poinciana Playhouse, whereupon he learned that his wife's genuinely rosy wrap was the harbinger of a new fad for pink mink. The skins...
...behind the Pentagon's sales effort is Henry J. Kuss Jr., 42, a New York City-born economist whose formidable title is Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Logistics Negotiations. His 27-man staff does not try to palm off expensive weapons systems on a country, instead studies foreign strategies and figures out what new U.S. arms or equipment could help most. The staff has much to choose from, chiefly because U.S. military research spending totals more than $3 billion a year v. only $400 million in Britain, $180 million in Germany, $175 million in France...
...fight and, as the Feb. 9 union election approaches, a bitter campaign is being fought. It is replete with denunciation and sarcasm, lapel buttons and helmet stickers, kleig lights and sound trucks at mill gates and union halls. Abel portrays McDonald as a has-been who prefers nightclubs and Palm Springs to the open hearth and McKeesport, calls for the rejection of "tuxedo unionism," and charges that the Steelworkers have suffered from McDonald's "happy-go-lucky, old-buddy, old-pal negotiations" with industry. McDonald, warming to the fight and seeming to pick up strength as he does, belittles...
ICOMI has been so successful, in fact, that it is beginning to make its presence felt all over Brazil. It recently joined with Sweden's SKF to build a ball bearing plant near São Paulo, is making plans to expand into the sugar, plywood and palm-oil businesses. With world manganese prices once more moving up after a slump, ICOMI expects soon to have even more money for seed capital and diversification...
...rock 'n' roll in the mid-1950s, making as much as $200,000 a year on radio and TV until he was caught accepting some $30,000 in record-company payola in 1959, got a six months' suspended sentence and faded from earshot; of uremia; in Palm Springs, Calif...