Word: poole
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Architecturally, Adams includes two fragments of that vanished land, the Gold Coast, where the walls are dark with oak paneling, the windows small and leaded, the bathtubs crouch on scaley clawed feet, and the square swimming pool steams with the mosiac erudition of Xanadu...
...order was a surprise to Monaco's press bureau, headed by Actor Jean Gastaud-Mercury and assisted by Charles A. Smith, on special leave as I.N.S. Euro pean general manager. Though Smith organized photographic pool coverage of the 1956 Olympics and D-day in Normandy, and sat on the committee that made press arrangements for Queen Elizabeth's coronation, the new project promised to be his toughest. Smith urgently wired the Prince to try to persuade him to let at least a few newsmen in for the ceremonies on a pool basis...
...Southern California's Mel Patton. ¶| James Ray Jordan, 36, a California aircraft worker with a great desire to set a world record, achieved his heart's desire by tanking up on pure oxygen for two minutes, dropping to the bottom of a heated San Diego swimming pool and holding his breath for 8 min. 3½ sec. to crack the record set by France's M. Pauliquen...
...ANTITRUST SUIT is expected to go to trial, since the Justice Department has almost given up hope of negotiating a consent decree. Trustbusters charge that the company uses its pool of 10,000 radio-electronic patents to keep industry in the dark about new developments, forces licensees to pay for RCA patents they do not need...
...races that finish at the pool end, however, a possible solution to the judging problem may rest in metal caps, worn on a swimmer's fingers, that would close a low-current electric circuit at the touch. Electricity in the water, though, is more than hazardous...