Word: palming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What does Dwight Eisenhower think of the Kennedy Administration? After an hour-long chat with the ex-President at his Palm Springs retreat, South Dakota's Senator Karl Mundt thought he had the answer. Ike had criticized the new Administration, Mundt reported in his weekly newsletter to constituents, as "too much left of center; too partisan; too slanted toward programs supported by union bossism." The Mundt report produced a thunderclap from Palm Springs. Said Eisenhower: "Senator Mundt's statement . . . does not accurately describe my views on public affairs . . . and I very much regret its issuance. The Senator evidently...
...early Kennedy choice for Secretary of State before he was shot down as a segregationist. One result of the leak was to stir up a newspaper ruckus over controversial appointments before approval had been received from the foreign ministries. Principal victim: the Kennedy family's close Palm Beach friend. ex-Cuban Ambassador Earl Smith, who was politely blackballed by the Swiss government (TIME, March...
Champion Patterson had rented a villa on Florida's east coast, just a stroll away from the Atlantic surf. But Patterson could hardly have cared less. "This is a vacation spot," he said. "But I'm not here for fun." Sixty-five miles northward, at Palm Beach's Sea Breeze motel, Challenger Johansson took his turn in an open-air, rooftop training ring, and dunked himself in a nearby, palm-girdled swimming pool. "Ah," said Ingo, "this is the perfect place...
...City, Ariz., last week, the clear desert air rang with a mighty chorus of activity. Through its palm-lined streets wafted the strains of Stephen Foster melodies as the cast of the Sun City Minstrel Show rehearsed for its big night. Golfers played on a golf course that meanders through the community, and lawn bowlers practiced body English on the bowling green. The shuffleboard courts were jammed, and so was the community-center swimming pool. Ranged in some 40 different clubs, Sun City residents busily kept their hand in at everything from chess to stone cutting. And-for those...
...summer of 1959, the Webb organization bought 30,000 acres of land about 16 miles northwest of Phoenix, invested more than $2,500,000 in building parks, wide palm-lined streets, a shopping center, community buildings and other facilities. By Jan. 1, 1960, the organization had model homes constructed and was ready to begin selling. The modest, basically similar, concrete-block houses ranged from $8,750 for a two-bedroom structure to $11,600 for a three-bedroom and two-bath house. On the first week end, purchasers bought 272 of the neat and gay pastel houses-and the flow...