Word: palming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...point had himself strapped with his camera to the hood of a speeding car to get realistic footage of the races. The crusty critics even applauded during the showing, rated the film as an homme-dinger, a top contender for the festival's first prize, the Golden Palm...
...family dynasty, whose successes allowed him to indulge his love of sports, as he put more than $100,000 into the Minnesota Vikings football team and $750,000 into the yacht Constellation in 1964, when it successfully defended the America's Cup; of uremia; in West Palm Beach...
...Caroline, like her mother, is "the quieter, more reserved of the two, slow to make friends") and a few intriguing anecdotes. There was, for example, the time when Caroline first became aware of people's color. Once she noticed that she was turning brown in the sun at Palm Beach. "George," she asked a Negro servant, "how did you get that color? I've been in the sun all day and I'm only a bit brown." "Well, Miss," George confided, "I've been lying in the sun all my life, I guess." After that, writes...
Married. Suzanne Atwater Kent, 23, granddaughter of A. Atwater Kent, millionaire radio manufacturer; and Thomas Hitchcock III, 26, Grand Prix auto driver and third-generation polo player whose father, Thomas Hitchcock Jr., was considered the greatest polo player of all time; in Palm Beach...
...hitting .366 this spring-but they also have a line-up that averaged 80 strikeouts per man last year. The newly named California (formerly Los Angeles) Angels have a new $24 million stadium in Anaheim and new ambitions (at 20-1). But they still take their spring training in Palm Springs, and that is no place for a man to keep his mind on his work. Unless he has the determination, say, of Pitcher Marcelino Lopez. Lopez flies as high as any Angel, but he sticks to beer and Coke-mostly mixed together. "It tastes like a malted milk...