Word: palmed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...account is remarkably explicit. He and Hughes first met by prearrangement, says Irving, in Oaxaca, Mexico, on Feb. 13. By Irving's account, the meetings continued over the next ten months, in automobiles and motel and hotel rooms in San Juan, Puerto Rico; Nassau; Beverly Hills and Palm Springs, Calif.; Key Biscayne and Pompano Beach, Fla.; and somewhere near Miami...
...Katanga province will be called Shaba (after the Swahili word for copper, the source of the province's and the country's wealth), and the Stanley Pool -the Kinshasa harbor area named for Journalist-Explorer Sir Henry Morton Stanley-will be referred to as the Malebo Pool (palm tree, in one Zaïre dialect). Elisabethville had already been renamed Lubumbashi and Stanleyville had been changed to Kisangani. Now, even street names like Avenue Charles de Gaulle will have to go, says Mobutu, "despite the admiration we have for this illustrious Frenchman...
...tallest building. He and his family live in the wealthy Denver suburb of Cherry Hills Village on a baronial walled estate complete with guest wing, offices, swimming pool and a live-in servant. For recreation, the Kings maintain a mountain retreat in Vail, Colo., a home in Palm Springs, Calif., and an island estate on Maui, Hawaii. He drives a radio-equipped Cadillac, maintains an extensive collection of antique guns, wears monogrammed shirts and cowboy boots, and boasts several hundred pairs of cuff links, many of them solid gold. "My life-style has not changed in ten years," King...
...chairmen of PSAC under Eisenhower, namely (James) Killian (chairman, MIT Corporation) and (I.I.) Rabi (professor of Physics, Columbia University). They agreed with me that this was a very dangerous thing even to talk about. And we constructed a telegram to ex-President Eisenhower (who was then in Palm Springs) quoting the general and saying that this would be disastrous in its own right and also raised a danger of expanding the war. We sent that telegram to Eisenhower, and as luck would have it, President Johnson was visiting Eisenhower a day or so after he got the telegram. Apparently Eisenhower...
...Nigeria is full of boom talk, and the country has enormous economic potential. It is rich in cash crops -cocoa, peanuts, palm oil, coal and iron ore. Most important is oil, which was discovered there in 1956. With a current output of 1,700,000 bbl. a day, Nigeria has passed Iraq and Canada to become the world's ninth largest oil producer. The government's share of the profits is expected to surpass $1 billion this year and $1.25 billion next year...