Word: billiards
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...79th Street duplex in Manhattan that he now shared with Louise made perfect sense. It had a striking Aubusson rug, a Tiffany lamp, a newly decorated interior. His old apartment had contained a bed in the middle of the floor-and little else. The new main room held a billiard table -and nothing else. The ceilings concealed tiny spotlights to illuminate pictures on the walls. But there were no pictures on the walls. The Nolde watercolor, the Kokoschka drawing and the Gloria Vanderbilt paintings were stacked up somewhere, awaiting the decision that their owner could not make. The Wurlitzer jukebox...
...retirement. When the mediator of the Palestine dispute, Count Folke Bernadotte of Sweden, was assassinated by Israeli terrorists in late 1948, Bunche took over. It required painstaking, brilliant diplomacy to bring the Arabs and Israelis together on the island of Rhodes; Bunche's forceful personality, plus occasional billiard games, helped to keep them there. When the armistice agreement was reached 81 days later, Bunche gave the negotiators special pieces of Rhodes pottery, made before the negotiations opened. To an Israeli delegate who asked what he would have done with the pottery had the talks failed, Bunche smiled and said...
...film and co-starred with two of his best cronies, John Cassavetes and Ben Gazzara. In the self-conscious and easygoing Archie of Husbands, Falk found a character who was the image of his own half-studied, uncouth offstage self. A onetime "pool junkie" (the all-nighters over the billiard table may explain his hunched posture), Falk is still a steady gambler on "baskets, pro ball and the fights." Though his wife of eleven years is fond of her modish lifestyle in Beverly Hills, Falk says, "I don't go to nobody's home...
...hurries through the darkness. Their rations.are low and the drinking water gone. It has been a long and arduous journey; now the rewards are at hand. The nuclear family is about to start a week of nuclear camping. The camp includes: a swimming pool, a laundromat, a supermarket, a billiard academy, a miniature golf course, and fence-to-fence asphalt and plastic grass...
...part of the post-World War II drive for freer trade, the U.S. tariff on cast-resin billiard balls was progressively reduced from 50% in 1947 to 20% in 1963. Now the Belgian billiard-ball hustlers fear that they may be snookered out of their prime market. Albany Billiard Ball Co. of Albany, N.Y., the only U.S. maker of cast-resin billiard balls, claims that it has been knocked into a side pocket by the imports. The company once dominated the U.S. market, but currently has only one-third of it. So Albany Billiard Ball is campaigning to kick...