Word: palmed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...world. At the airport my sleepy irritation was jarred by a platinum wig, perched on a mannequin head, that watched dumbly while its brunette alter-ego harangued a porter. I drove through Miami Beach to indulge myself in a deluge of costumes and Cadillacs. Later, in Palm Beach, Harold's grocery truck (of Southampton, L.I., and Palm Beach) sped by advertising pheasant and fresh caviar. At Hamburger Haven I was handed hamburgers by a waiter in a cashmere sweater and Gucci shoes (no socks). In front of the Beach Club a wedding party sang college songs and split Jack Daniel...
...Tourists, Hanson extends his distaste to Mr. and Mrs. Middle America on vacation somewhere in the sun: he with his Hawaiian shirt and baggy Bermuda shorts and festooned camera equipment, she with her blue sunglasses, red slacks and gold sandals, both staring with puzzled receptiveness at-what? A palm tree? A Morris Lapidus facade? Hanson has pinned down the fragile particularity of pure banality. There may seem to be something too easy, almost flip, about this kind of social anatomization...
Died. General Thomas S. Power, 65, retired Air Force commander who as boss of the Strategic Air Command from 1957 to 1964 provided the nuclear deterrent for three Presidents; of a heart attack; in Palm Springs, Calif. Power was not a temporizer: he believed that war, once started, could only be halted by crushing force. He led the March 1945 fire-bomb raid on Tokyo that killed 84,000 Japanese, was a planner of the A-bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and fashioned the peacetime SAC into the most devastating instrument of destruction ever known...
...laughter when he told Chairman William Fulbright: "The intelligence in this mission was excellent." It was?but only up to the crucial point of whether or not prisoners were still at Son Tay. "Obviously the raid wasn't successful because of faulty intelligence," said Vice President Spiro Agnew from Palm Springs where he was golfing. Laird's only explanation was feeble: "We have not been able to develop a camera that sees through the roofs of buildings." The Pentagon insists that since prisoners are exercised only rarely in the open, there is simply no way to tell when they have...
...discuss this dual role, with its problems and rewards, with TIME Correspondents Hugh Sidey and John Stacks. Seated in his luxurious suite in the Executive Office Building, a white marble bust of Socrates staring over his shoulder, the Vice President was tanned from a weekend of tennis in Palm Springs. But he looked and sounded a little weary, and as he spoke, he showed a curious mixture of nearly self-righteous assurance about the accuracy of his charges and an almost sad sense of his own fallibility...