Word: palming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plane, train and automobile the leaders and the led, the great and the grateful converged in the Kennedy villa at Palm Beach last week. They talked jobs, patronage, budget, legislation, inauguration, and between sessions discovered that life with the Kennedys is something like life on a trampoline...
...locks as he had done with no hair. Caroline seemed satisfied with that, and then sought out Lyndon Johnson to discover whether the master political craftsman knew how to make sand pies. Disappointingly, he didn't. One morning Sam Rayburn also tried his hand at fishing off the Palm Beach seawall with little Joe Kennedy, Bobby's son, caught eight fish to Joe's seven. As if that had not been enough of a challenge, Sam Rayburn also had to sleep next to the nursery; the baby, remarked Jack Kennedy next day, "had a restless night...
...week's end, Ike had reason to be madder than ever. During a Palm Beach press conference, Jack Kennedy noted that no commitment at all had been offered to Dillon. "A President," said Kennedy, "can't enter into treaties with Cabinet members...
...Island Residents. Indigenas who endure the system without protest live peacefully enough. For those who rebel there is the palmatória-a stout, flat bat with holes in it. A dozen sharp blows of the palmatória on the open palm leave welts and blisters that last for weeks. Persistent troublemakers disappear quietly to the labor camps of São Tomé, Portugal's little island prison in the Gulf of Guinea...
...Castro's economic agents talked big deals, but so far have signed few contracts. A U.S. embassy official looked into reports that U.S. wheeler-dealers were sending embargoed goods to Canada, then transshipping them via the U.S. in sealed freight cars to the Havana railway ferry at West Palm Beach, Fla. He reported back that "not a single provable case has turned...