Word: palmful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will control many votes at the 1976 Republican National Convention. Moreover, he maintains a close friendship with Frank Sinatra (see PEOPLE), the high-living singer whose boorish conduct at Nixon's Inauguration festivities angered many top Republicans. Agnew and his wife Judy are frequent guests of Sinatra in Palm Springs, Calif. Granting one of his rare interviews, Agnew told the Christian Science Monitor that these visits are not "big partying occasions" and it is not true "that Frank Sinatra and I are going around raising hell together. I respect and admire him very much...
...biding his time. He has indicated that he will no longer let himself be used by the President to make slashing political attacks unless he himself is in total agreement with the points in such speeches. Agnew speaks so rhapsodically about the joys of the good life in Palm Springs that some of his friends think that he might just chuck Washington completely when his term is over. For anyone who has been just one step away from the Oval Office, however, such a retreat is most unlikely. Just ask Hubert Humphrey−or Richard Nixon...
ACOMPANIED by an intermediary - a civilian Moslem who sympathizes with the rebel soldiers - I set out from Basilan City in a motorized outrigger called a pump boat. We rode through the tranquil coastal waters for 30 minutes, then turned into a narrow creek canopied with palm fronds. It was another 30 minutes before we reached the rendezvous point - a lonely clearing on a coconut plantation...
...Thomas A. Dooley Foundation award for being a Splendid American of "forthrightness, honesty, integrity," Sinatra found the other Splendid American, Spiro T. Agnew, playing it cool. The two friends arrived separately, supped separately, departed separately. It was left to Judy Agnew to entertain her husband's old Palm Springs, Calif., host and golfing crony...
...York firms are aiming at the homosexual market, one with a series of nine-day junkets to Isla de Oro, in Panama's San Bias Islands, where the men sleep in hammocks in palm-thatched huts. A magazine aimed at homosexuals is offering a brace of two-week trips to Europe. "It's not a sexual trip," says one of the excursion's sponsors, "but a cultural one, intended for people interested in meeting those with similar interests...