Word: palme
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...horde of chickens, dogs and goats (protected under Schweitzer's "reverence for life" mystique by which no living thing should be unnecessarily disturbed) roam at will, adding freely to the surrounding filth. When a patient dies and his body is unclaimed, it is wrapped in a fern-and-palm-leaf shroud, laid in a wooden box, and buried in the bush...
...Dying. Her hiveness, the heroine of the film, is a blonde humdinger named Marina Vlady, whose performance won her a golden palm at this year's Cannes Festival even though her lines were dubbed in by someone else. Words were unimportant. As the young bride of a fellow twice her age, she spends most of the picture nude between the sheets. She has married him not for his honey but because her own family has no male heir. Her vigor and tenacity in attempting to conceive would be enough to debilitate the entire United States Marine Corps, let alone...
...your "Resorts" story of May 24, about Paleface Sam Banowit's Palm Springs springs, one of the Agua Caliente Indians stated that Mr. Banowit was "the first Jewish Indian in the country...
...spring itself, bubbling up from volcanic depths beneath Southern California's San Jacinto Mountains, has been there for aeons. But in the 60 years since vacationers first discovered Palm Springs, nobody paid much attention to it except the bedraggled Indians who owned it. Visitors reveled in the crystalline desert air, the handsome golf courses, and the magnificent views of the mountains rising out of the desert. Movie stars vacationed there and built luxurious holiday homes. Dwight Eisenhower came out to try the golf. But the Agua Caliente Indians, who found the place and had been granted the acreage immediately...
...four outside pools, three of them simmering at more than 100°. To their boiling depths come crowds of celebrities, and not only show-business types but also such solid citizens as Steelworkers Chief David McDonald, Golfer Gary Player and Joe DiMaggio. Late last month, Banowit opened the Palm Springs Spa Hotel and Mineral Springs, a $2,500,000 edifice touted simply as "the most beautiful bathhouse in the world...