Word: palmful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DIED. Edgar Buchanan, 76, veteran character actor in nearly 100 films, most of them grade-B westerns, who won his widest recognition as Uncle Joe in TV's Petticoat Junction; of complications following brain surgery; in Palm Desert, Calif...
...Palm Coast...
Gerald Ford did not get an invitation. In his home near Palm Springs, Calif., he fiddled with his TV set and found that his cable line was on the blink; the former President had to wait for the evening news for the pictures. But there was no lack of good Republican enthusiasm for the man who had beaten him at the polls, or for the treaty. "I applaud it," he later roared over the phone. "All three met the challenge. I hope the doubters recognize that this is the only way we can get a comprehensive settlement. I hope...
...first bigtime real estate developer: "I'm not kidding you, we just can't build 'em fast enough." Francis Blackwell, 54, Boston-born executive director of the Maui County Visitors Association, boasts: "We have more millionaires per capita than any other place in the country, including Palm Springs." To which Kapalua Land Co.'s Oregon-born vice president, Michael Gallagher, 36, adds: "How many more rich people can there be in the world? Where can they be? It's frightening...
...their quiet effect and chill. Some of the best things in both films lie in the casual and exact use of particular locales. In Assault, the desolate quality of a faded section of Los Angeles is captured perfectly in the disconsolate look of a parking lot, a few haggard palm trees, and a grim, sloping street, and there is a similarly good, throwaway treatment of leafy suburban lawns in Halloween...