Word: palming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...announce price hikes in several categories of steel (TIME, April 19). One year earlier, the steel industry's ill-timed effort to raise prices had drawn a furious fusillade from the New Frontier. But this time there was only a mild murmur of protest from Washington and Palm Beach...
Something big was in the wind. At Palm Beach, White House Press Secretary Pierre Salinger called a special press briefing for 5:30 p.m. A television reporter asked if it would be worth having a TV line stand by, at a cost of $1,200. Indeed it would, assured Salinger. Another newspaperman cornered Senator Ted Kennedy on a Palm Beach tennis court, asked if the big news might be confirmation of the report that the President would go to Ireland this summer. "No," said Teddy, grinning slyly. "It's sexier than that...
...this year, is growing up; the President, who used to call her "Buttons," now addresses her by her real name. In Washington she often drops in at the President's office and sits in one of the big black wooden chairs beside his desk-just to chat. In Palm Beach she strides hand in hand with her father on shopping sprees along Worth Avenue, and aboard the Honey Fitz she likes to sit with feet dangling over the side and swap stories with the crew...
...want their names kept out of the papers, like Charlene's father, to those who want to get them in, like the top levels of the New Frontier. Charlene's father had long been a close friend of Joseph P. Kennedy. The two now have mansions on Palm Beach's North County Road, and warm neighborliness prevails. President Kennedy sometimes stayed at the Wrightsmans' home; when he hasn't, he and Jackie have gone to parties there. Jayne Wrightsman, who has made the latest best-dressed lists, is a good friend of Jackie...
Arabia or Palm Springs? Spiegel, too, has got what he was after. He describes his esthetic attempts with a certain convolution more fitting to script-writing than speech: "I want to explore the variations on the theme of a man being basically in conflict with his own destiny, asserting his instinct for constructiveness, conflicting with the destructive forces around him." But his search for motion-picture reality is earnest: he built miles of roads in Ceylon while making River Kwai, hired 16 elephants to haul the 30,000 cu. ft. of timber used to build the bridge. "One Hollywood joker...