Word: palmed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rips through his familiar litany of complaints against liberals and Northerners, the stomping crowds in Jacksonville, Daytona Beach, West Palm Beach and Homestead roar as though it all were fresh. George Wallace teases, holding his big gun for last. Then he brings it out and blasts away at what has become his favorite target: busing. "I'm in tune with you," he shouts. "This busin' is callous and asinine. We're busin' children to kingdom come. But that busin' is gonna come to an end in this country when you elect me." The crowds...
Thursday, he too had made in Miami what was billed as a major statement, a proposed national "fair share" tax program, including a graduated social security tax, property tax relief, and repeal of tax breaks for big business Muskie ended Friday's campaigning with a walk through the Palm Beach shopping mall. As it had in New Hampshire Muskie's earlier absence from the primary battle seems to have hurt...
...outsider the buying and selling seem like an explosive quarrel; traders scream at each other and gesture with their hands. They are obeying rules that specify that all bids and offers must be called out publicly, and flashing hand signals to make themselves understood through the din. Palm out means buy, palm in means sell; in grain trading, each finger held up vertically signifies 5,000 bushels...
...since. "I don't think the old paper really hurt anybody," Pope says, "but I'm not particularly proud of what it was." Today Pope has both pride and profit. He will not say how much the paper makes, but he is building a beachfront mansion near Palm Beach. "People who wouldn't spit on us before," he says, "are clamoring to write stories for us-Congressmen, Cabinet officers, even J. Edgar Hoover...
Died. Walter Lang, 73, motion-picture director for 36 years; of liver failure following surgery; in Palm Springs, Calif. Hollywood was making silent movies when Lang arrived in 1925, but he made the jump into talkies, Technicolor and wide screens with ease. He directed nearly 40 films including Cheaper by the Dozen, Call Me Madam, Can Can and The King...