Word: pool
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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JOHNSTON CITY, Illinois-The world's All-Around Pocket Billiards Championship is in its final days. Pool sharks from all parts of the country annually congregate in Johnston City (pop. 3900), a rural city in southern Illinois, during October to contest the $20,000 prize money...
Things are back to normal at the pool, though one swimmer reported that the usually blue water is now green...
...Harvard water polo team romped to a 17-12 victory over a game Dartmouth squad at the IAB pool last night in the season opener for both teams. Business School student John Montgomery paced the Crimson with nine goals...
...They painted me with black paint," he said, "and forced my arms behind me so that my body was bent forward. Whenever I tried to straighten up, a Red Guard punched me in the stomach. I sweated so much that a pool formed on the ground under my eyes and I could see my reflection in it." Then, after a sudden silence followed by applause, "I was told to straighten up. A few inches in front of my eyes dangled the body of my cat, Ming Ming, hanged from the roof by a washing line." When the crowd began chanting...
...those puckish pop art pieces of George Segal or Marisol. As a matter of fact, Henry Geldzahler can claim all that and more. He first came into public view-a quasi-somnambulant rotundity in prison stripes afloat in a rubber raft-in an Oldenburg Happening mounted in the swimming pool of a Manhattan health club. Next came instant stardom before a Warhol camera. His role: smoking a cigar for an interminable hour and a half. "I have a certain unusual look," says Henry, and who would dispute him? Marisol carved his rumpled pants and big black shades (now replaced...