Word: palming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Petersburg, Fla., was an embattled city last week. At night, trucks drove through the palm-lined streets and the stands of scrub pine and palmetto, spewing a chemical fog onto house-and treetops, all the way to the mangrove swamps lining Florida's Gulf coast. Local citizens were fighting, if not on the beaches, at least in the streets and their own backyards, cleaning out every container in which mosquitoes could find enough water to breed. Bird lovers got a stern official warning: stop feeding the birds or putting out water for them...
...Fuller wrinkle is a 44-question entrance exam-for parents, not children. Sample: "Do you believe it right that your child be spanked at school if he does wrong?" A "no" gets a fast rejection from Fuller, whose favorite cure for errants is whacking a child's outstretched palm with a ruler. Fuller's school is so besieged with applicants that he accepts only one out of ten. He now plans a new $100,000 school for 200 students. His current parents-doctors, lawyers, businessmen, two public-school teachers, a Democratic state representative-are all apparently delighted that...
HELEN LOUISE KINDELBERGER Palm Springs, Calif...
...Close, 61, owns a Las Vegas mortgage loan company, has a house with a palm tree growing through it. The top of the tree is spotlighted at night, now bears his campaign poster: M. D. CLOSE FOR GOVERNOR. His vague platform centers around a state lottery, which is illegal. But, platforms aside, he candidly admits: "I have a purpose in running-I wanna be elected...
Heady as Wine. The enormous stage (40,000 sq. yds.) supported such assorted distractions as Aztec temples, adobe huts, palm-tree jungles and a fishing fleet with speckled sails that bobbed in a harbor set at stage left. Dancers and singers, 700 strong, roamed about, some of them equipped with flaring torches. Concealed beneath fishermen's nets, the 120-man Vienna Symphony whipped out the music everyone had come to hear-a froth of billowy, bubbly Viennese tunes, as light and heady as the Nussberger wine that flowed before the performance. Through it all, the tenor sang of love...