Word: palming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Overseers. Virtually mobbed by students in the Yard, Kennedy quipped: "I am here to go over your grades with Dr. Pusey, and I'll protect your interests." In a few hours he was off to New York, and the morning after, to Washington for conferences. Arriving in Palm Beach with his brother-in-law Peter Lawford and Democratic National Committee Moneybags Matt McCloskey, Kennedy bored into the myriad details that he had to get out of the way by Jan. 20: more conferences, more reports, more telephone calls, more conferences...
...committee assignments, although they did strip him temporarily of his patronage. (In the heat of the anti-Colmer drive last week, Judge Smith threatened reprisal against Powell. Said he: "We will see whether whites and Negroes are treated the same around here.") But Speaker Sam Rayburn, after huddling in Palm Beach with President-elect Kennedy, decided that this year something had to be done about the Rules Committee - and that he was the only man who could do anything effective...
...doubling the amount of surplus food distributed to depressed areas, Douglas saw a longer-range program of federal grants to unemployed workers, broad regional redevelopment programs, and substantial local public-works projects that might even include creation of a Youth Conservation Corps. Cheek by jowl with Douglas in Palm Beach, Kennedy told the press that aid to depressed areas should be assigned "the most important domestic priority...
...belly boites, with their papier-mâché palm trees or hand-painted Ionic columns, heretofore existed mainly on the patronage of Greek and Turkish families. Customers often bring their children; between performances, enthusiastic young men from the audience will take the floor to demonstrate their own amateur graces. Except for the odd uptown sex maniac or an overeager Greek sailor, the people watch in calm absorption. Small, shirt-sleeved orchestras play in 2/4 or 4/4 time, using guitars, violins, and more alien instruments with names that would open Sesame: the oud, grandfather of the lute; the darbuka...
Mediterranean naval base of Toulon. A towering look-alike of the Charles de Gaulle of yore, Philippe has shown many flashes of his father's courage as well, holds a Croix de guerre with palm for his World War II exploits...