Word: palming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cargo annually, and its burgeoning industry ranges from the traditional textile mills that owe their beginning to the U.S. Civil War, when the Union blockade cut off cotton from the South, to brand-new petrochemical plants. The city's 4,500,000 people are crowded into a narrow, palm-dotted peninsula that has a greater population density than London or New York, and hundreds more swarm in each month from the hinterland, hoping for a taste of Bombay's better life...
They don't actually have to start with that penny-ante stuff, but the experience could be useful. So it was that Sydney Lawford, 7, and her cousin, Maria Shriver, 8, went into business in front of the Palm Beach mansion of Grandfather Joseph P. Kennedy. Shrewd choice of location. The manse fronts on much-traveled North County Road-and their product, cold drinks priced at a nickel a gulp, quickly attracted a large clientele. But shortly the cops stepped in. Peddling without a license? No. Traffic...
First, she ventured out of her borrowed Palm Beach home with Caroline and John Jr. to buy a few gifts. In the past, such an expedition might merely have turned heads. But last week a compulsively curious crowd gathered as she browsed in Worth Avenue stores. It became so thick that further shopping was impossible...
...operatorless elevator, they have also developed a conditioned reflex. They instinctively slap any metal object-typewriter, watercooler, doorknob-with the flat of the hand before using. Otherwise, little blue sparks fly from fingertips and a nasty, if harmless, jolt runs up the arm. In fact, even the most cautious palm-slapper sometimes yields a small tingle...
Trouble is, the knowledge is all too seldom put to use. So 80 family doctors got together with a scattering of psychiatrists for a Palm Springs conference sponsored by the University of South ern California and the National Institute of Mental Health. They spent a long weekend working out means of putting into practice what everyone accepts in theory...