Word: palming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...TIME Correspondents James Wilde and Janice Simpson and Reporter-Researcher Georgia Harbison prowled the studios and salons of Manhattans fashion world. For his look at the way models live, Wilde went roller-discoing with Supermodel Apollonia, brunched with British Model Rachel Ward at the Plaza Hotel's Palm Court and interviewed Louise Roberts, who every week combs through as many as 200 applicants to the Eileen Ford agency to come up with one or two who might have a modeling future. "Normally I work the streets," Wilde says. "This job was like being let loose in Cartier to fondle...
...months before the shooting, while Harris and Tarnower were visiting friends in Palm Beach, she wrote a parody of Clement Moore's A Visit from St. Nicholas: "In the guest room lay Herman, who, trying to sleep/ Was counting the broads in his life instead of sheep./ ... There were ingenues, dashers and dancers and vixens./ I believe there was even one Cuban, one blitzen...
DIED. Clair Farrand, 85, holder of more than 250 patents for inventions including the cone radio loudspeaker (which supplanted earphones and horn speakers), an electronic measuring device used in computer memories and submarine navigation, and optical technologies used in range finders, bombsights and periscopes; of a heart attack; in Palm Springs, Calif...
...Germany and Japan have sent a competitive shiver into American industries in recent years, the U.S. has still managed to produce such things as the Xerox, the transistor, the laser and the microchip. A lot of Yankeeingenuity is spent, to be sure, on diverting gadgetry, such as a projected palm-size phone and a vacuum cleaner with a memory (a seemingly gratuitous burden). But recent developments in medicine, such as the hybridoma cells for cancer treatment and the creation of insulin through genetic engineering, are making the 1980s look boldly promising...
...Reagans continued a twelve-year tradition of spending the New Year's holiday at the 360-acre Palm Springs estate of Publisher Walter Annenberg, where Richard Nixon often visited. They were joined by 60 friends to usher in the New Year. The next day, the Reagans went to a party at the Eldorado Country Club, where President Dwight D. Eisenhower spent his winters after leaving office. Reagan's hosts were California Tycoons Justin Dart and Jack Wrather; the guests included Attorney General-designate William French Smith, Standard Oil of Indiana Chairman John Swearingen and Comedian Bob Hope...