Word: poole
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bound for Washington and "a long overdue date with a tennis court and a swimming pool" in Connecticut. U.S. Ambassador Clare Boothe Luce left Rome last week increasingly hopeful about Italy's future. "If Trieste can be settled, as I hope it will be," she told reporters before she left, "and if EDC can be ratified by Italy, then this country within the next two years will begin to play a much more active and dynamic role in foreign affairs than at any time since 1948." Premier Mario Scelba's government seems more and more to promise...
Automatic Life Guard. A swimming pool alarm that rings a loud bell when somebody accidentally falls in was put on sale by Los Angeles' Modern Design Engineers. A sensitive float connected to an electric box at poolside is upset by any unusual motion of the water, thereby sets off the bell, which keeps ringing until help comes. Price...
Fish and Wildlife Service rushed them to Washington in a Stratocruiser. At the airport (temperature 90°), they seemed resentful and whistled shrilly, but when they got to the zoo, they splashed with content in the iced water of a small, air-conditioned pool...
...suggests that lovers of sea otters come to see his new charges promptly before something happens to them. So far they seem to be thriving, however. Hortense and Peter, though young, are taking an interest in each other. Washingtonians may yet see a baby otter circling round the pool on its mother's furry chest...
...yacht, probably the fanciest private ship afloat. Called the Christina (after his wife), Onassis' floating palace is a 1,445-ton, 303-ft. Canadian destroyer escort (Stormont) rebuilt into a yacht at an estimated cost of $2,500,000. In the afterdeck is a marble swimming pool, with a mosaic floor that can be raised for dancing. In the lounge is a huge fireplace of ornamental lapis lazuli, while in the cozy barroom, decorated as an old sailor's haunt, cocktail sippers can sit in whaleskin chairs at a glass-topped bar enclosing a tiny fleet of ancient...