Word: poole
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BRIGADIER AND THE GOLF WIDOW, by John Cheever. In these short stories, the author keeps a tight grip on his own creatures of exurbia: the proletariat of vice presidents, the charming, irrelevant aristocracy and the winning eccentrics who compose a swimming-pool society...
...what the developer calls a "soft community atmosphere." With the new demand, suppliers are offering a variety of styles. Beverly Hills' gaslight is currently running to flaming torches-preferably crossed. An even fancier idea is to run a gas pipe up nearly to the surface of a decorative pool so that a jet of flame seems to be burning right on the water. The Houston Natural Gas Corp. has sold 30,425 of the new-old outdoor lamps -taking ads to proclaim that ladies look lovelier by gaslight: "No other illumination on earth is quite so glamorous." Another company...
...Angeles Businessman Norton Simon plunges into his backyard swimming pool three times a day, but that is about the only way he ever plunges. Working from a base that includes California's $400 million Hunt Foods & Industries and heavy investments in salad oil, matches, paint and publishing (McCall's), Simon plans his moves with the care and strategy of a Clausewitz. West Virginia's Wheeling Steel (1963 sales: $236 million) was surprised to find a few years back that Simon had quietly become one of its biggest stockholders, controlling 145,000 shares. Last week Norton Simon...
...campus. Eccentrically conditioned scholarships, though deplored by colleges, open some novel opportunities at this time of year, when the only thing harder than getting into college is getting into college cost paid. Even at schools such as Harvard, where liberal-minded donors have piled up a sizable dollar pool that any needy student can dip into, restricted funds are still accepted and awarded on the theory that they release unrestricted money...
Although no operator has yet agreed to run the motel, negotiations are underway with several companies. The motel will contain about 200 rooms, a swimming pool, a restaurant, and five floors for parking...