Word: palming
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...Indian prince," says a friend. His holdings include the 2B Ranch, a 14,000-acre spread where he and Beatrice stable eleven horses and hunt together. Then there is a 6,500-acre Oklahoma cattle ranch and, for a change of scenery, a vacation retreat in California's Palm Springs. Pickens' $1.5 million year- round home in Amarillo boasts a sunken tennis court, a 20-ft.-high glass- enclosed gallery, plus a library of more than 1,000 volumes that includes a collection of rare illus- trated books on American Indians...
...federal pressure and a new challenge to family discipline by Mafia underlings and independent bookies has led to three Mob executions since Jan. 10. Investigators contend that the murders were sanctioned by four aging Windy City Mafia chieftains as they spent the Christmas season in the warmth of a Palm Springs, Calif., retreat. The four, according to investigators, were Accardo, 79, the longtime Chicago boss, who suffers from cancer and heart trouble; Joseph Aiuppa, 77, the operating chief, who has a bad heart and is rumored to suffer from throat cancer; John (Jackie) Cerone, 70, the Chicago underboss...
DIED. Nathan Cummings, 88, contentious Canadian-born businessman who in 1939 took over an ailing Baltimore coffee and tea company and, through both internal growth and acquisitions, transformed it into Consolidated Foods, ranked 49th among FORTUNE 500 companies, whose brands include Sara Lee cakes and Fuller Brush; in Palm Beach...
...world's largest producer of ether, traffickers have decided to import coca paste to Miami and process it locally. Over the past 18 months, authorities in Miami have closed down cocaine refineries at the rate of one a month. In January, an elderly woman strolling along the seashore in Palm Beach County almost stumbled over a dozen Army duffle bags. Suspicious, she called the sheriff's office; when the authorities opened the bags, they found almost half a ton of unprocessed coca...
Even a traditional steakhouse like the Palm reports 5% to 15% increases in fish sales at its branches in New York and other cities. Always popular along the coasts, seafood is now gaining favor inland as well. Jimmy Lynch's 8th Street Seafood Bar & Grill in Des Moines serves 60 to 70 dinners most evenings, three-quarters of which are seafood, a count that doubles on weekends. Lynch receives three air freight shipments of fish a week, totaling 400 to 500 lbs., including such bizarre specimens as monkfish and shark...