Word: palming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Strapped to Palm Trees. Hardly was one set of terrorists behind bars when another struck. As some 150 students and professors crowded the cafeteria of Jerusalem's Hebrew University, a 2-lb. plastic bomb, hidden in a flowerpot, exploded and injured 29 persons. On the same day, a grenade was hurled into a bank at Ramallah, north of Jerusalem, wounding an Arab depositor...
...terribly subject" to those New York winter chills, and he has already tried the Sahara and the Caribbean. Miami was a thought, "because it's so infinitely sordid and untempting." So now Author Truman Capote is settled in Palm Springs, Calif., working away on his first book since In Cold Blood. It's to be called Answered Prayers, said Truman, striking that languid reclining pose that he made famous on the jacket of Other Voices, Other Rooms 21 years ago. His new book will have lots of characters and "some of them will be recognizable." That...
...room with small tables seating ten each; centerpieces were Jackie Kennedy's vermeil baskets spilling out fresh garden flowers; the china was Lady Bird's eagle and state-flowers design. And just as the guests prepared to nibble their way through delicate chicken crepes and hearts-of-palm salad, who should show up but the President himself. "Just in time to cool our luncheon," quipped Pat, as her husband showed off a valentine he had received from Willie Mae Rogers, the Good Housekeeping executive whose nomination as a consumer consultant had caused such a storm. He then proceeded...
...Kids. "I think they can settle this dispute without me," said Catcher John Bateman, as he checked in at the West Palm Beach, Fla., training camp of the Montreal Expos, a new National League team. "I always had a weight problem, and I thought it best for me if I came on down." Other defectors also pleaded personal problems. "I can't buy a house and strike at the same time," said Pitcher Pete Richert of the Baltimore Orioles. "You got to keep busy when you have four kids," said Chicago White Sox Catcher Russ Nixon. Though Ken Harrelson...
Just after Christmas we went on a picnic. It was raining and grey and a perfect day for Volkswagens. I drove through Tomoka Park, down narrow roads with Spanish moss above, hiding the sky. We stopped and watched a silent group of pure white egrets perch high in some palm trees on an island in the marsh. Then we rode down a twisting, red clay road to the Bulow Sugar Mill Plantation ruins. Once there, we got out, and I jumped around for a while. Gayle followed, but she was always conscious of the fact that she was getting...