Word: palming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...energy from the Gulf Stream and being carried along by a fast-moving upper air mass, Cleo hit Miami full force. It was the first time in 14 years that a hurricane had done that, and many new Miamians will be talking about Cleo 14 years hence. It bent palm trees to the ground, crumpled street signs, uprooted shrubs, took gravel right out of roadways. Blowing at 115 m.p.h., Cleo knocked down so many power lines that more than 60,000 telephones in Dade County were without service. At least two dozen fires broke out in Miami, and winds were...
Divorced. By Dinah Shore, 47, TV's old-fashioned girl: Maurice Smith, 43, Palm Springs contractor; after one year of marriage, no children; in Indio, Calif...
They say that the recipe for a Hungarian omelet begins, "First, you steal a dozen eggs," and when Marlene Dietrich came on to sing at the Cannes Palm Beach Casino, the world's most professional Hungarian was sitting at a ringside table with her photographer. The world's sexiest sexagenarian had on a skintight, flesh-colored gown so diaphanous that her contract forbade pictures during the performance, but as Zsa Zsa Gabor told it, "My cameraman was so overcome by Marlene's beauty that he asked if I thought she would mind being photographed. I told...
...week, and this year he became one of the 15 winningest jockeys of all time. When he's not driving his gold '64 Pontiac Bonneville convertible, he drives his maroon '64 Coupe de Ville Caddy. He has two homes, one on Long Island and one in Palm Springs, Fla., where he lives with his wife and two children. And his stock portfolio numbers such blue chips as A. T. & T. and Reynolds Tobacco...
...deeply affecting work by an artist able to project a commonplace theme with blinding brio. Germi leavens his anger with compassion, lightens compassion with humor. And one pointed vignette embodies all three: a hard-pressed chief of the carabinieri, studying a wall map of Italy, impulsively flattens his palm over the entire island of Sicily and utters a long, long sigh...