Word: poole
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...satisfied simply with winning the Canadian 400-yd. medley relay championship, the Walter Reed Hospital Swim Club team (TIME, Apr. 18) set a world record besides. Splashing in perfect form through the University of McGill pool in Montreal, Mary Jane Sears, 15, Wanda Werner, 14, Shelley Mann, 17, and Susan "Dougie" Gray, 15, covered the distance in 4:30.5, nearly two seconds faster than the old record they had set themselves...
...Legend has it that Franklin Roosevelt was out for a drive, when he asked the name of the place. "Bethesda?" he repeated. "That was 'the pool of healing.' What a place for a hospital!" F.D.R. had seen the tower capping Nebraska's capitol in Lincoln and had vowed: "Some day I'm going to build a Government building like that." Over the vigorous protests of his esthete uncle, Planning Commissioner Frederic Delano, he did. The highly impractical tower was built into the Navy's hospital at Bethesda...
...Less than a half-hour after Dutch Swimmer Mary Kok, 15, sluiced through a Utrecht pool to set a world record for the free-style mile (22:27.1), her teammate, Lemi de Nija, 16, pushed the mark still lower...
Main feature of the U.S. exhibit and hit of the show is the "swimming-pool reactor," a working research reactor set up on the lawn outside the palace. It is housed in a building that looks like a large, windowless Swiss chalet. Inside, from a black ceiling, beams of light slant down. On a red linoleum platform stands the reactor, a pool of crystal-clear water, faintly blue and 21 ft. deep, with control rods reaching into it. At the bottom, enveloped in blue luminescence, are the reacting uranium plates. Visitors can look down with perfect safety, and sense...
...royal style, all on the house. It is quite a house: suites will rent for as much as $65 a night; each of the 450 rooms has air conditioning, TV, and imported marble baths. Outside the hotel is a 50-by-90-ft., palm-shaded swimming pool; inside, the hotel has a Bali Room restaurant and nightclub, where everything from walls to waiters is tricked out in Balinese decor; a Nordic Room studded with 25,000 pearl-like shells, a Versailles Room for private banquets, where a fountain can be made to spray champagne instead of water...