Word: poole
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Just over a mile away, at the edge of the oldest part of town, a power shovel clawed out a hole for a swimming pool beside the most elegant recent addition to Philadelphia's skyline, the three Society Hill apartment towers by Architect I. M. Pei. Around them, through what was a disheveled market area five years ago, stretch the broad lawns of a five-acre plaza, and in this historic neighborhood, remodelers were busy restoring to their original elegance dozens of 18th century row houses that had most recently been seedy boardinghouses. To the southwest, work began...
Although the combatants exchanged some discreet accusations of dirty pool, their encounter contained few surprises for those familiar with earlier installments in the forensic series...
...bedrooms, three baths, a maid's room and bath, an atrium open to the sky, and a sunken living room are $1,000 a month. In addition to the view, other attractions are available at relatively modest extra cost to all tenants: access to the free-form swimming pool carved out of the cliff is $100 a year per family, garage parking is $25 a month, limousine service from Horizon House to Manhattan executive suites is $15 a week and Horizon House's own school bus takes kids to nearby schools for $2.50 a week...
...question in swimming was not how many medals the U.S. would win but how many it would lose. In Tokyo's Olympic pool, the dreams of other aquatic nations dissolved in the foam churned up by 49 crew-cut boys and pink-cheeked girls who averaged 18 years of age, fretted like all adolescents about acne and freckles-and swam as if sharks were snapping at their toes...
...very first American in the pool, California's Gary Ilman, shattered the Olympic record for 100 meters; before he could even write home about it, all sorts of people were beating the mark, too-and Gary found himself just the fourth-best 100-meter man in the world. "Somebody's gonna break the world record in the 200-meter backstroke," predicted Princeton's Jed Graef, 22. Who might that be? "Me," said Graef, and hit the electronic touchboard in 2 min. 10.3 sec., barely edging Teammate Gary Dilley...