Word: palming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...place to shoehorn into at the moment is Shepheard's, a fantasia of golden Pharaohs, gilded sphinxes, palm trees and desert tents, which is supposed to suggest the famed old outpost of empire in Cairo that burned down in 1952. Shepheard's, which opened last December in the Drake Hotel, is not a club-though that is not to say it is easy to get a table. It is also not a pure discotheque; a combo of drums, bass and xylophone plays along with the records...
...Lyndon started things with a real blast. In a chilling rain at Palatka, he touched off a 150-lb. dynamite charge to break ground for the 107-mile, $158 million Cross-Florida Barge Canal. Afterward, he stopped off in Palm Beach for a 20-minute visit with Joseph P. Kennedy, ailing father of the late President. Then he headed for Miami Beach...
That did not bother Bobby. He was growing bigger every day-too big, in fact, for his britches. Once, during this period, he told a group of visiting political-science scholars: "On any issue, I have at least ten Senators in the palm of my hand." At the same time, says a Senate aide, who watched Bobby's rise with some awe, "the lobbyists were swarming around his office like flies. They buttered him up, kept telling him how great he was, and I think a lot of his trouble now comes because he got to believing...
...microphone embedded in a bite-size rubber pad (1½ inches square, one-quarter inch thick) that can be carried in the investigator's palm, attached to an amplifier in his coat pocket; when pressed against a phone booth or a door, it relays the action through an earplug that looks like part of a hearing aid. Hotel dicks love...
...founder in 1901 and president until 1941 of Sterling Drug, Inc., who began business in Wheeling, W. Va., and with brilliant marketing and an unerring eye for mergers parlayed Neuralgine, an analgesic, into a $250 million-a-year business (Novocain, Demerol, Bayer aspirin, Phillips Milk of Magnesia); in Palm Beach...