Word: palming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communists themselves who seemed about to destroy any chance they may have had for inclusion in the government. All week long Red agitprop specialists spattered Djakarta's buildings with red-paint slogans supporting Sukarno's proposal. Across the city's swill-strewn byways and broad, palm-lined boulevards diligent Communist cadres hung hortatory banners. The Red campaign was the most impressive show of organized political strength Indonesians had seen in years, and to many Indonesian politicians it was also the most frightening...
...Under a Palm. Until messages for Attorney Michel went unanswered for several days, nobody at the hotel missed the tourists, but finally the police were called. Searching the rooms, the police found all in perfect order: baggage seemingly untouched, an unfinished letter on Mrs. Hallock's desk. In short order the case bounced onto front pages around the U.S. Alarmed at the potential damage to its booming tourism, Acapulco called in the Federal Security Police. As day after day passed with no word, Mrs. Hallock's distraught sister, Mrs. Edith Hoffman, arrived from New York. She promptly revealed...
Frightened by the uproar, Fenton had meanwhile buried the jewels beneath a palm tree on a lonely beach. Questioned, he claimed steadfastly that he had hardly known the vacationers, said that as far as he remembered Mrs. Hallock had never displayed any jewelry more flamboyant than a trivial topaz ring. As Mrs. Hoffman tore Fenton's story to shreds, police grilled Waiter Rios, whose share of the loot had been only $200 in cash. Rios admitted that Fenton had hired him to help rob the couple. On the 17th day Fenton lost his nerve; news had arrived that...
...years as Secretary of the Air Force in August 1955 after telling the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations that he had been "mistaken" in writing possible clients of his private firm (Paul B. Mulligan & Co. of New York) on Air Force stationery; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Palm Beach, Fla. Talbott counseled a farewell Pentagon luncheon: "Do right and don't write...
Architect Harry Weese was in trouble. He had just arrived in Accra, the palm-fringed capital of West Africa's Gold Coast, and what had seemed a minor problem back in his Chicago office suddenly began growing like a tropical weed. Young (41), function-minded Architect Weese had been commissioned by the State Department, on a low budget of $300,000, to design an embassy and staff residences in hot, humid Accra, with the stipulation that his design must harmonize with the indigenous architectural tradition. But apart from thatch or corrugated iron and adobe, he found that there...