Word: palming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...streets outside, pleasure reigned. Youths on motorcycles rattled along the littered avenues dragging steel street signs and pots and pans that threw up showers of sparks from the pavement. Boys and girls sang and waved palm fronds in triumph. And trucks, cars and delivery scooters jammed into central El Conde Street, their rapturous passengers pounding hoods, fenders and roofs in an endless two-long, three-short rhythm for "En-fin, Libertad! [At last, Liberty...
Army Talk. Between sessions with Sorensen, the President took a hard new-look at the U.S. military establishment in general-and the Army in particular. To Palm Beach came Vice President Lyndon Johnson. Defense Secretary Robert Mc-Namara. Deputy Secretary Roswell Gilpatric and Presidential Military Adviser Maxwell Taylor. Next day they were joined by the Joint Chiefs of Staff-Chairman Lyman Lemnitzer and the uniformed heads of each of the services. The talk turned from the defense budget to streamlining the Army's organization. Time and again, when proposals were made, the President insisted on having them spelled...
...S.A.O. last week finally located the secret barbouze headquarters. It was a modern villa called Bel Air, set among the olive and palm trees on the heights of Algiers. The head barbouze was identified as Colonel Jean Leroy, 50, a veteran paratroop officer and guerrilla leader who is half French, half Vietnamese. In Paris last fall, Leroy accepted a commission from De Gaulle's government to form a 100-man underground police force to fight the S.A.O. with its own terror tactics...
With a curtsy to the newly garment-conscious District of Columbia, the New York Couture Group again crowned Jacqueline Kennedy as the best-dressed woman in the world, and for the first time welcomed into its top twelve her sister. Princess Stanislas Radziwill, and her Palm Beach-Manhattan shopping consort, Mrs. Charles Wrightsman. Among repeaters from last year was Thailand's Queen Sirikit, who moved a lovely leg up a rung toward the poll's Fashion Hall of Fame-the Olympus of three-time win ners entered last week by boyishly elegant Actress Audrey Hepburn and Mrs. Norman...
Morning. Sunshine. Palm trees. "We're alive!" Unfortunately, so is the giant crab, 18 ft. from claw to claw, that comes scuttling down the beach. After a fearful battle, the monster plops into a boiling hot spring. The castaways breakfast heartily on boiled crab, then sight a small boat drifting ashore. What luck! The boat just happens to contain what every cinema castaway most urgently requires: women...