Word: palming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hour chosen by astrologers as auspicious, Ceylon's Governor General Sir Oliver Goonetilleke last week swore in history's first female Prime Minister of an independent country. Coolly dignified in a plain white cotton sari, Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranaike. 44, stepped to the balcony to give a pressed-palm salute to the crowd below, and then, predictably, burst into tears. That was just how she had won last week's election...
...Kennedy "hospitality house," outside the arena, the brothers met with restrained congratulations. The only sign of emotion came from Bobby, who pounded his right fist triumphantly into the palm of his left hand. A few minutes later the weary candidate walked into the roaring arena, flanked by his beaming mother and sister Pat Lawford. And back at Marion Davies' Beverly Hills home, old Joe Kennedy picked up the phone. It was Bobby...
...deeply moving, but to even more it seems a cumbersome who-done-it that turns eventually into a hope opera. Will the Sanhedrin succeed in its plot against the Nazarene? The outcome actually seems uncertain most of the time. Despite occasional effective scenes-such as Christ's Palm Sunday entry into Jerusalem-the scenario is often less lively than the begat-begat-begat chapters of Genesis. "Living tableaux" of scenes from the Old Testament contribute little but an impression of so many Bavarian countryfolk assembling for a photograph in Biblical costume...
...William B. Kouwenhoven, 74, an electrical engineer (professor emeritus at Hopkins) who also lectures on surgery at the university, worked out the method with the help of three colleagues. The team experimented first with animals, then adapted the idea to human anatomy. It consists of putting one hand palm down on the unconscious subject's lower breastbone, placing the heel of the other hand on top, then pressing down sharply and releasing smartly, 60 to 80 times a minute. Even in old people, ribs are so flexible that danger of breaking them is negligible. One limitation: the method will...
Adventure Theater (CBS, 10-10:30 p.m.). Thomas Mitchell plays a henpecked bank teller who embezzles his wife's grocery budget to finance his flight to a palm-studded Pacific paradise. First of a new summer series...