Word: palming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week Adam Clayton Powell kept New York in an uproar over whether he would return to Harlem from his Bimini exile on Palm Sunday. In the end, he disappointed his followers by deciding to tarry a while in his island sanctuary...
Severe Damage. The first task of the New Order is to clean up the incredible economic mess that Sukarno has made of Indonesia. As a Dutch colony before World War II, Indonesia supplied one-fifth of the world's tea, one-third of its rubber and palm oil, two-fifths of its kapok and four-fifths of its pepper. Scattered throughout Indonesia's 3,000 verdant islands are rich mineral deposits -gold, tin, bauxite, tungsten-and oil reserves. "Indonesia is rich in natural resources," says Suharto, "but the damage done to our country's economy has been...
...aboard Onassis' 325-ft., $3,000,000 yacht Christina, a magnificent barge that comes equipped with its own twin-engined seaplane, swimming pool and crew of 50. After posing in the rosy-fingered dawn for a photographer from the Bahamas Ministry of Tourism, the wanderers steamed off toward Palm Beach...
...static, enigmatic story with flashes of his familiar images: a fat spider, which represented God in Through a Glass Darkly, and here seems only to be arachnid revulsion; a flickering silent movie of Death dancing comically around a table, a la Seventh Seal; a nail being pounded into the palm of a hand. In sequences reminiscent of The Silence, a little boy is twice shown on a hospital cot, reaching out to a wide, white wall that becomes the face of the nurse, as if he were a fantasy of her unborn child. Time and again, Bergman appears to have...
First he stopped in Dallas to pick up the Neiman-Marcus award as the year's most original dress designer. Then he went on to Palm Beach, where Martha's, an exclusive salon with shops in Florida and New York, bestowed a similar award. In Manhattan, 400 socialites turned out to see his clothes at a benefit cocktail party on the St. Regis roof for the Committee to Rescue Italian...