Word: poole
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Less than nine months ago, President Eisenhower stood before the U.N. General Assembly and made his historic proposal to pool atomic energy for peacetime uses. When the Soviet Union quietly sabotaged East-West negotiations on the plan, the U.S. turned to more limited discussions with a select group of nations. This week the President revealed for the first time the result of those discussions. In a brief television speech, he announced that the U.S. had negotiated agreement on an international agency to pool both atomic knowledge and materials and to turn them to peaceful...
...Frederika easily carrying away top dancing honors. While the youngsters gulped gallons of Coca-Cola, their elders forsook champagne in favor of solider Scotch. At the end of one hilarious evening, some of the more enthusiastic princelings tossed their cousin Christian of Hanover into the ship's swimming pool fully clad, then all jumped in themselves. After that, Frederika ordered the pool emptied each night...
...Ambassador to the Court of St. James's Winthrop Aldrich ("a nice man in spite of being ambassador") and his wife Harriet. They were among the 60-odd who joined Shipping Tycoon Aristotle Socrates Onassis for a drink on his yacht, "a small ocean liner ... a swimming pool that turns into playing fountains and then-into a dance floor...
Baseball teams and bowling leagues are by no means the only things that companies offer. For its 12,000 Dayton workers, National Cash Register Co. runs a 166-acre park with picnic grounds, swimming pool and two 18-hole golf courses, is now planning a field house for winter sports. International Business Machines Corp. has three country clubs for its workers, charges membership fees of $1 a year for employees, $1 for wives (or husbands), and 25-50? for each child. Detroit Edison Co. and Standard Oil Co. of California provide yacht clubs. The employee-run Convair Recreation Association owns...
With Ferry stationed in Manhattan and Hutchins dividing his time between Manhattan and Pasadena, Calif, (where the fund is housed in a mansion, with swimming pool, originally purchased by the Ford Foundation for West Coast headquarters), the fund will soon speed up the spending of its self-liquidating millions. One controversial project looming on Hutchins' list may well demand the counsel of a public-relations expert: a look at censorship, boycotting and blacklisting activities in radio, television and movies...