Word: palming
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...redeemed of all ages," which conservatives considered too ecumenical in nature. They shunned a resolution to censure the Kansas City's Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, where Elliott had taught. The consensus was that the split was painful, and perhaps profoundly damaging. Said the Rev. Jess Moody of West Palm Beach. Fla., a popular orator of TV fame: "The biggest issue is not all this ecclesiastical falderal. History may record that America died because its spiritual wellsprings dried up, due to the fact the churches were fighting over the wrong issues. The gut issue is what the church will...
...dismay through the battle-scarred ranks of golf's professionals. In the space of eleven short months. Jack ("Baby Beef") Nicklaus has won the U.S. Open (prize: $15,000). the World Series of Golf ($50,000), the Seattle Open ($4,300). the Portland Open ($3,500), the Palm Springs Golf Classic ($9,000). and the Masters ($20,000). He has collected a paycheck in all but two of the 37 professional tournaments he has entered, and he has finished among the top ten in 24. Last week, in the Las Vegas Tournament of Champions. Jack Nicklaus-doggone him anyway...
...since William Powell was a matinee idol noted for his sophisticated suavity in The Thin Man, The Great Ziegfeld and My Man Godfrey. Many of today's moviegoers scarcely know him. But less surprising than his fading reputation is the actor's actual survival. Last week in Palm Springs, Calif., Powell observed the 25th anniversary of his operation for cancer of the rectum. And with the same smooth ease that made him a hit on the screen, Powell spoke frankly of an illness and a treatment that most patients and their relatives find too embarrassing to discuss...
...that kind of a week for Kennedy. With Jackie in Palm Beach, the President took over some of her social chores. More than 1,000 music pupils and high school, students swarmed onto the newly planted South Lawn to hear the Central Kentucky Youth Symphony Orchestra performing at one of Jackie's cultural programs. At another garden party for 100 foreign Fulbright scholars, the President was upstaged by a 17-month-old Arab girl, who cavorted around him and cried "Mommie, mom-mie," while Kennedy saluted "some of the brightest minds from abroad." Said the President, manfully ignoring...
...papier-mache Egypt, Zeffirelli had scattered Sphynxes like sugar cubes; amid palm trees, columns, temples and 200-foot-high idols, he had corralled a cast of 600 singers and dancers and ten Berber horses. There were half-naked belly dancers, Nubian slaves, blue-faced soldiers, ballet dancers painted green from head to toe. And when Radames made his second-act victory procession, he came on at the head of 200 soldiers and 100 Ethiopian slaves. In an ardent effort to recreate the splendor of Aïda's 1871 debut in Cairo (in celebration of the recent opening...