Word: palming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...target area was a fertile quilt of rice fields and palm jungle near the market village of Tan Phu, only ten miles from Saigon. Communist Viet Cong guerrillas not only control the countryside, but can enter the town itself with impunity. They collect both rice and money taxes from the peasants and, in their hidden weapons caches, keep musical instruments and songbooks for use in the evening indoctrination sessions held for the local citizenry...
Paper Solace. The result is that some areas of the vast Congo interior are at a virtual standstill; last year coffee and cotton exports yielded only fractions of their normal revenue, and much of the big palm-oil output is lost to smugglers. Unemployed workers upcountry now flock to Leopoldville, where 100,000 of the normal 300,000 labor force are already out of work. Organized gangs, ignoring the barred windows and the bright floodlights around homes of the well to do, creep up at night to saw off the bars and steal what they can. The U.N. is bringing...
...very rich woman. She has the $13.5 million Bay left her before he died in 1955, is now married to wealthy Broker-Oilman C. Michael Paul, and cuts such a figure on the New Frontier that Jack and Jackie Kennedy spent Christmas at the Pauls' eight-bedroom Palm Beach mansion...
...miles later, having logged temperatures from near freezing to as high as 132° Fahrenheit and altitudes of up to 12,000 ft., Gaisseau and his radio engineer, Herve de Maigret. staggered out to the mocking serenity of the Hollandia coast and an orange-tinted postcard sunset among swaying palm fronds. Five of the explorers, including the photographers (Gaisseau had to take over the camera), had dropped out, some of them being rescued by helicopter. Three of the native bearers were dead, 30 men were ill with dysentery and malaria. But their heroic physical ordeal had been a journey...
Married. Virginia ("Ginny") Simms, 43,radio and cinema singer of another day; and her real estate partner. Don Eastvold, 45, formerly attorney general of Washington State and the famed "man with the book" at the 1952 Republican convention; she for the third time, he for the second; in Palm Springs...