Word: palming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...both sides. Last week thousands of Congolese suspected of rebel sympathies were herded into the Stanleyville stadium and tried "by acclamation." Those found guilty were taken to the Congo's banks and either shot, or thrown in, to be eaten by crocodiles. But the Simbas still took the palm for bloodthirstiness. In one town they raped 19 nuns, including a 60-year-old Dutch sister, then hacked to death an American, Sister Marie Antoinette, before the others' eyes. In Isangi, six Belgians were devoured not by crocodiles but by cannibals...
...their oceanside unit an hour's drive from Los Angeles is a second home; for most owners, a mobile home is their only abode. Mobile homes are a long way from becoming the prevailing U.S. way of life, but they are a major part of that life: in Palm Springs more than half the population lives in them...
ELAINE DE KOONING-Graham, 1014 Madison Ave. at 78th. "He had a golden look, his hair was unexpectedly ruddy, his eyes were very large and impressive -he seemed larger than life." This was Elaine de Kooning's impression of President Kennedy when she sketched him at Palm Beach in December 1962, and it is the likeness she caught in the resulting 15 portraits, all larger than life. Through...
Charlotte Ford, 23, prefers better-known quality goods-mink, for instance-to kangaroo, makes no bones about the money she spends on clothes (mostly by Courreges, Guy Laroche and Givenchy). An outdoors sort, she thinks "the ski life has it all over the Palm Beach life-much healthier." Currently between jobs (she worked for two years in interior decoration), she entertains at occasional formal dinners, invites two or three friends for lunch every day because "it's so much more relaxing than going out." Countess John Palffy likes to have twelve friends to a black-tie dinner party, then...
Lower Owl, Upper Sparrow. Last week, in a new and stunning blonde wig, she was at her greatest in the pink and purple Flamingo Room at Las Vegas, appearing before a mass of abnormally hushed conventioneers, all of whom were in the palm of her hand. Ella is 46 now. Countless other singers have entered and left the scene during the span of Ella's career. A British magazine recently conducted a poll to determine the second best female singer; it was understood that the first was Ella. As a true jazz musician, she has never sung a song...