Word: palming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...U.C.L.A. both Presidents donned cap and gown to receive honorary doctor of laws degrees. Later they flew to Palm Springs, called on Dwight Eisenhower (it was, said Ike, "just an evening with old friends") and settled down to private talks. The agenda inevitably included disarmament, the lagging Alliance for Progress, what to do about Panama and Cuba, but no treaties were signed, no formal decisions taken. Now that the Chamizal dispute on the Rio Grande has been settled, Mexico and the U.S. have few major outstanding disagreements. There is one issue - a minor one as international flaps go - that continues...
When President Johnson meets Mexico's President Adolfo Lopez Mateos in Palm Springs this week, he will have a chance to introduce the new U.S. ambassador who is about to move to Mexico City. He is Fulton Freeman, 48, currently U.S. envoy to Colombia and rated one of the most energetic and effective U.S. diplomats on the job in Latin America...
...Coldstream Guardsman. Now that, as they say in the set, is "the right sort," and everyone was delighted that pretty Durie Desloge, 22, will marry Briton Roderic lain Bullough, 28, in late May. The couple met in Bangkok last summer, and right now they are in Palm Beach visiting her mother, Durie Malcolm Bersbach Desloge Shevlin, who hit the prints last year when longtime, but never proved, rumors that she had once been secretly married to John F. Kennedy stirred a minor sensation...
...textiles into everything from suntan lotion to Mad magazine, sent profits soaring for both companies until the credits ran out, whereupon disenchanted stockholders last year cut his Hotel Corp. salary by $25,000 (to $75,000 as chairman), eased him out of Botany altogether; of a heart attack; in Palm Beach...
...conversations in Palm Springs-or at least the communiques-are likely to gloss over the uglier problems: Guantanamo, Panama, and above all wide-spread Latin American doubts about the new administration's sensitivity to the area's needs...