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...drastically revised his proposals to accommodate objections that Mills raised. During the recent shaping of the bill, Administration officials frequently consulted with Mills by telephone. At times it seemed as if the two most important seats of power in the U.S. were the temporary White House in a Palm Beach mansion and Congressman Mills's office in the basement of the post office in Searcy, Ark., just a hoot and a holler from his home town of Kensett...
Submerge Those Differences. To this spirit, President Kennedy lent great support on two occasions. First, he received Artime and other officers in Palm Beach...
...James Patrick McGranery, 67, U.S. Attorney General in the Truman Administration's last year, a onetime New Deal Democratic Congressman from Philadelphia (1936-43) who was brought in to clean house in the Justice Department after Truman fired his predecessor, J. Howard McGrath; of a heart attack; in Palm Beach. The Washington Daily News hooted that "the Administration now will hide its grapes of McGrath in the ever normal McGranery," but McGranery went at it with a will, bounced Justice bureaucrats, freely fired crooked U.S. marshals, and started proceedings to deport such Mafia mobsters as Frank Costello...
...Palm trees and well-tended flower beds brighten the grounds of the four grey stone and concrete buildings of Villa Devoto Detention Institute in Buenos Aires. But the facade hides a multitude of sins and sinners: inside, Villa Devoto is the darkest penal hellhole in all Argentina...
...Angeles, lights were strung on the palm trees, and passengers on incoming jets were greeted at International Airport by four 70-ft. crosses built onto the control tower. For the ninth consecutive year, the Santa Monica Municipal Bus Lines sent a special candy-cane-striped bus reeling down the city's streets. Denver's gift-giving was handled partly by rented Santa Clauses, who, for about $5, delicately park their cars half a block away from the receivee's home (the better to avoid the reindeer issue), ring sleigh bells rather than the doorbell, but hand over...