Word: poole
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crimson swimming team will face an undefeated Princeton squad in the Princeton pool at 3 p.m. this afternoon in what is expected to be the varsity's toughest pro-Yale meet...
Dyer earlier beat Steinman in the 50-yard sprint with a 23.5, a fast time considering the strange pool...
Operation Sophiatown was neither a pogrom nor a Mau Mau roundup. It was the South African government's new, efficient way of enforcing its policy of apartheid (racial segregation). An all-African community with shops, churches and the only swimming pool for African kids in Johannesburg, Sophiatown is one of three "black spots" on the western side of the city, which the government has recently zoned as "predominantly European." For whites and Negroes to live in such close proximity strikes South Africa's Boer Nationalists as improper and possibly sinful...
Typical of the big urban research-treatment centers is Sawtelle Hospital in West Los Angeles. Sawtelle's twelve buildings comfortably house some 6,000 veterans of every U.S. conflict after the Civil War. Depending on his condition, a Sawtelle patient may see a first-run movie, bowl, shoot pool, watch night baseball, attend church, get married, and be buried just a bugle call away from his buddies-all without leaving the hospital grounds. Says one 82-year-old Spanish-American War vet: "My boy, we're not just satisfied here. We're contented...
Lectures & TV. Some educators think that the present retirement policies for professors should be revised. President Arthur S. Adams of the American Council on Education suggests that additional recruits might be found among educated women whose children have grown up, or perhaps among the growing pool of retired Army and Navy officers. J. F. Wellemeyer Jr. of the American Council of Learned Societies thinks that universities might consider revamping some teacher-training programs, and instead of insisting on the Ph.D. degree, might extend and deepen their programs leading to the M.A. At the University of Toledo, President Asa Knowles...