Word: palming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Angry Press. All week long, Dr. Janet Travell, the White House physician, smilingly dodged the press. While the President was in Palm Beach, Associate Press Secretary Andrew Hatcher was asked if a consulting doctor had been called in, answered, "No." But word soon leaked out that Dr. Preston Wade, a New York surgeon, had indeed flown to Palm Beach to examine the President's back...
Last weekend President Kennedy took off for a brief rest at the Palm Beach villa of a friend, Charles B. Wrightsman. There, as he slept for up to twelve hours at a stretch and swam in a heated, salt water pool, his pain could be expected to ease-if, as his aides insisted, his new condition really had no connection with his old ailment...
...source of 80% of the world's cloves, tiny, palm-wreathed Zanzibar off the coast of Tanganyika was long ruled by Arab sultans, who imported slaves from the mainland to cultivate the spice trees. When the British took over in 1890, they left the current Sultan with his title and his ceremonial peacocks. But 70 years later, as Britain moved to give Zanzibar self government, the ancient hatreds between African slaves and Arab masters have brought savage division to somnolent Zanzibar...
Died. Joan Davis, 48, long-legged, gravel-voiced comedienne, star of radio's The Joan Davis Show and TV's / Married Joan series; of a heart attack; in Palm Springs, Calif...
...role as a wholesale supplier to African retailers. Getting in on the drive toward local industrialization, United Africa has invested, almost always as a minority stockholder, in African plants producing everything from cement to cosmetics. In Ghana, when the government decided to take over the buying and selling of palm products, United Africa willingly gave up the business-and became the government's agent...