Word: palming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...close to 900,000 votes, the biggest plurality in Massachusetts history. Kennedy's reputation as a prime vote getter-presumably on a national scale-was correspondingly enhanced. And so, in late February 1959, Jack Kennedy called a special presidential strategy session at his father's Palm Beach home. Present were Brothers Bobby and Teddy Kennedy, Brothers-in-Law Sarge Shriver and Steve Smith, Adviser Ted Sorensen-and Larry O'Brien. In this first formal planning for a Kennedy effort to reach the White House, O'Brien was assigned the job of establishing Kennedy organizations throughout...
Immediately after Election Day, O'Brien drew an arduous assignment: checking the qualifications, background, weak points and strong suits of nearly 10,000 prospective officials in the new Administration. One afternoon in Palm Beach, going over the lists of names with O'Brien, Kennedy casually notified him of his new job: "By the way, I think this role of congressional liaison is for you." As a graduate of both houses, Kennedy gave O'Brien a warning against the pitfalls of intimacy. "In politics," the President-elect told him, "you don't have friends. You have allies...
Cold weather hangout for the Florida-vacationing Kennedy clan is Joe Kennedy's 16-room winter home on Millionaires' Row in Palm Beach. Modest by local Taj Mahal standards, the house has a simple, lived-in look. The living room furniture is slipcovered in durable green and white flowered chintz and is arranged, says one reporter, so that "there are aisles for the children to run through." As in all the Kennedy homes, the center of activities is outdoors, by the tennis court and swimming pool. From poolside, Joe Kennedy telephones around the U.S. to his children...
...Manhattan broker-management firm of Helmsley-Spear. Wien and Helmsley have been allies ever since, have parlayed their original venture into a $600 million real estate empire that includes New York's plush Plaza hotel and the more plebian Taft, Cleveland's Leader Building and the Palm Beach Towers. From their handsomely appointed offices in New York's skyscraper Lincoln Building, both Wien and Helmsley have been staring out at the Empire State for years. Said Helmsley last week: "I think we have always wanted the Empire State; it gets into your blood when you look...
Once he had learned to distinguish between Wright and God, Pastor Vergis found the architect reassuring and even reverent. "Mr. Wright used to say, 'We'll all be right here, in the palm of His hand,' " recalled the pastor, cupping his hands as Wright had. In the concrete and steel teacup church that followed the pattern of his cupped hands. Wright ringed the rim with a wide balcony to bring more worshipers closer to the altar...