Word: palming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There was a pleasant surprise in store for President Kennedy. Landing at West Palm Beach for an Easter vacation, he spied his father awaiting him in a car. It was the first time that Joseph P. Kennedy had been seen so publicly since suffering a stroke last December. Slowly, Old Joe raised his left arm in greeting. The President reached into the car, affectionately clasped his father's hand. Then he slipped behind the steering wheel, drove off for ten days of Florida relaxation-and reflection...
...have given golf some of its brightest moments. In the 1960 Masters, he birdied the last two holes to beat Ken Venturi by a stroke. In the 1960 U.S. Open, deep in the pack after three rounds, he fired a last-day 65 to win. This spring in the Palm Springs Golf Classic, Palmer birdied five straight holes on the final round to beat Gene Littler. "I can always tell when Mr. Arnold is ready to make his move," says Caddie Avery. "He jerks at his glove, tugs at his trouser belt, and starts to walk fast. When Mr. Arnold...
Sunderland found himself at the head of an empire which, besides banana lands in eight tropical American countries, included cattle ranches, thousands of acres in sugar cane, cacao and oil palm, 1,380 miles of railroads, 55 ships, a sugar refinery and a communications network (Tropical Radio Telegraph Co.). He also found himself saddled with a chaotic organization in which three men might be working on the same project without being aware of each other's existence. The company also suffered from memories of the freewheeling days when it was run by the late Sam ("The Banana Man") Zemurray...
...ecclesiastical permission to attempt the hermitlike life known as reclusion. Her only contacts with the outside world are with the priest who daily gives her communion and with the convent abbess who visits her from time to time. This week Sister Nazarena and her sister nuns are busy cutting palm leaves for the Vatican's Palm Sunday. It is a time of "extra strict silence...
...Churchill Guest, an heir to the Phipps steel money, and his wife Lucy ("C.Z."). Boston-born "C.Z." was a Ziegfeld girl and artist's model for Diego Rivera before she settled down as one of New York's more active society matrons. The Guests have homes in Palm Beach and Roslyn, L.I., and rent a "hunting box" in Virginia, have turned their Manhattan apartment into a showcase for their English and French antiques and porcelains. To bring intimacy to the big, high-ceilinged living room, they divided it into three distinctive furniture groupings. "I wanted it comfortable," says...