Word: palming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eight water-splashed pages of color, TIME tours the sun, scuba and surf spots, and in accompanying text sorts out the places for those who want shopping, gambling, nightclubbing, and those who only want to be within earshot of a whispering palm. From the shivering north of Manhattan two teams went reconnoitering in the sun-one to the northern islands, from the Bahamas to the Virgins, the other down the stepping stones of the Leeward and Windward Islands to Trinidad. Correspondents Ed Reingold and Kenneth Froslid and Photographer J. Alex Langley did the first, and Rosemary Frank and Carl Mydans...
...best in air-conditioned comfort and sophisticated food for those who want cocktail-lounge luxury, the dim-lit excitement of a gambling casino, and the best floor shows east of Las Vegas. For those who yearn for nothing more than roughing it in total isolation, there are still remote, palm-fringed beaches. Or the middle-minded may want (and can get) a little of both, with some quaint native life and a steel band thrown in. Today the roster of places to go and the bill of particulars on each is so widely known that anybody can plot in advance...
...Reynoldses settled down to a quiet life in a Manhattan flat, a Palm Beach mansion, an estate near Winston-Salem, N.C., a Monte Carlo apartment, a Tahiti bungalow and a 30-room hideaway on Sapelo Island off the coast of Georgia. Every year, Buck Rabbit gave Doe Rabbit $125,000 in spending money, about $40,000 worth of jewels-and, presumably, all the Camels, Winstons and Salems she could smoke...
...Eliot, 76, suffering from a bronchial attack brought on by London's recent heavy smog; Mamie Eisenhower, 66, with a touch of the flu, in Palm Desert, Calif., where she and Ike are spending the winter; Harry Truman, 78, "doing nicely" after an operation for hernia, in Kansas City's Research Hospital...
...discoveries about the way the odds fluctuate in the game of blackjack, or twenty-one. This system enables the initiate to bet heavily when the odds are with him, lightly when they are against him. What's more, the cost of the system-including a set of palm-sized, sweat-resistant charts to take to the casino-is only $4.95, which happens to be the cost of Thorp's book, Beat the Dealer (Blaisdell...