Word: palmed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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MARY ISENBERG Palm Springs, Calif...
There are exceptions to this dismal catalogue. The Agua Caliente band, which owns most of the real estate in Palm Springs, Calif., is wealthy indeed. The Jicarilla Apaches in northern New Mexico, blessed with rich oil and gas deposits on their lands, have made investments in movie productions and are developing hunting and tourist facilities...
Died. Winthrop Rockefeller, 60, former Governor of Arkansas and second youngest member of the Rockefeller brotherhood that includes Nelson, Governor of New York, and David, chairman of the Chase Manhattan Bank; of cancer; in Palm Springs, Calif. A Yale dropout, Rockefeller was an oilfield roustabout and Army infantryman before settling down after World War II to tend to his share of the family fortunes-and to New York cafe society. When his first marriage to former Showgirl Barbara ("Bobo") Sears went awry in the early '50s, he left New York for the Arkansas hills, built a ranch and gradually...
Louis Yaeger, an investment consultant and Western Union's largest shareholder, prefers informal surroundings. "I can conduct all my business around the pool," he says. So can Frank McMahon, a Canadian oil millionaire. His poolside telephone has four lines for calls to New York and Vancouver. Though many Palm Beach notables deal daily in stock portfolios that could make a conglomerate feel like a shoeshine parlor, it is considered proper to chat not about mergers but perhaps the difficulties of orchid raising...
...women of Palm Beach generally fall into two categories, and their men follow close behind (in Gucci loafers). Some are big on the social scene, like Mary Sanford, who claims to have been one of the first to make money for charity at parties that everyone was going to anyway. "Women like to put on their ball gowns. They can't wear them to a little private party, can they?" Others profess to avoid it as much as they can. Mrs. Algur Meadows (General American Oil) much prefers to play golf, especially on Ladies' Day at the Everglades...