Word: palming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...picture includes some striking shots of animal life : a balding aardvark that spoons ants out of an anthill with a sticky pink tongue almost two feet long ; an immense gorilla that one moment crashes through canebrake like an express train, and the next sits placidly sucking a palm stalk ; a vast herd of zebras plunging, as they plunge in Roy Campbell's vivid sonnet, "Barred with electric tremors through the grass/ Like wind along the gold strings of a lyre...
Cannes, the fun-and-gamiest of film festivals, ended last week with Italy's La Dolce Vita as the unanimous choice for the Golden Palm first prize. Starring Anita Ekberg and dealing aimlessly with the sensual corruption of modern titled Italians-from the Via Veneto's sophisticated sodomists to the industrialist's young daughter whose idea of let's-go-slumming is to make love in the chambers of a prostitute-Director Federico Fellini's film has already provoked a church furor in Italy. In Cannes last week, it also set the tone...
...President Sunderland, 53, is brimful of plans for restoring United Fruit's oldtime profits. Above all, Sunderland wants to make the company less dependent on bananas. It might diversify by raising more cattle, producing more palm oil, manufacturing soap and other palm-oil products. Most important, perhaps, United Fruit last year acquired a 123,000-acre oil concession in Colombia, and Oilman Sunderland is keenly interested in exploring for oil elsewhere in tropical America, hoping that black gold will pay when green gold does...
...jacket he wanted to wear. The split: for Lucy, their two children, half of their $20 million Desilu TV interests, the leaky mansion, two station wagons, a cemetery plot at Forest Lawn. For Desi: the other half of the $20 million, a golf cart, a membership in a Palm Springs country club, a truck, several horses...
...height of Indonesia's abortive rebellion, a black B-26 bomber roared over the port of Amboina, dropped its bombs before it was hit by antiaircraft fire. Out popped the pilot, a 31-year-old Floridian named Allen Lawrence Pope. His parachute fouled in a palm tree and he lay helpless with a broken thigh until Indonesian troops found and arrested...