Word: palming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...then whirled and streaked across the field-leaving Glass with his legs hopelessly crossed. Tittle threw-and for a long instant the ball seemed hopelessly out of reach. But no. At the last second, Gifford doubled over, stretched out his right hand, and-plop-the ball landed in his palm for a 30-yd. gain. "I was only trying to bat it up in the air, but it stuck in my hand," said Gifford modestly. "I figured he had it all along," yawned Tittle, who has seen the same circus act all year...
...with Russian help, next spring will back up the Nile, creating a huge 1,800-sq.-mi. reservoir that eventually will give Egypt vast new irrigated acres and electric power. But it will also flood the gaily painted houses of the Nubians, their cemeteries, mosques and groves of date palm...
Nubian women seem happy about the move. Stone walls and concrete floors are a welcome change after a dusty lifetime of adobe and mud. Besides, there are movies, television, schools and clinics. As the Nubians file aboard the paddle steamer headed for Kom Ombo -loaded down with palm fiber beds, carved wooden chests, magical amulets, goats and sheep-they try to exorcise their grief of leave-taking by singing. One song runs: "The Nile is drowning Nubia and we must forget the past. The river brings life and the river brings. death...
...winter vacation has become so commonplace that the sting of the first sleet is likely to trigger automatic thoughts of palm trees and bathing suits -even for those who will have to fly-now-pay-later...
...that mixes people of achievement with outsiders of the jet set. Guests have included French Premier Georges Pompidou (who was director general of de Rothschild Frères under his good friend Guy until 1962), former Premier Michel Debré, Prince Sadruddin Khan, Artur Rubinstein, the Charles Wrightsmans of Palm Beach and Porfirio Rubirosa...