Word: poole
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scenario writer in all of Hollywood could have handled the scene better. More than 200 guests were clustered around the pool at California Governor Ronald Reagan's home in Sacramento. Suddenly, little Alicia Berry, the seven-year-old daughter of one of the Governor's employees, slipped and fell into the pool. Out of the crowd darted none other than the former movie star himself. Fully clothed, Reagan dived into the pool and returned the sputtering child to her mother. Said Reagan, who spent seven summers as a lifeguard in his childhood home, Dixon, Ill.: "I never take...
...Fogerty, who writes most of their material, got his musical inspiration from Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley records. He learned chords from a Burl Ives songbook. Doug Clifford didn't even know how to play drums when John invited him to join. He converted a pair of old pool cues into drumsticks on a school lathe, bought a snare drum and began practicing. That was a decade ago, when they were 13 and schoolboys in suburban El Cerrito, Calif. With Stu Cook on piano and John's brother Tom on bass guitar, they began as the Blue Velvets...
Help from the North. The whole debate has been intensified by the discovery of a huge pool of oil under the snows of Alaska's North Slope. The biggest new find in the U.S. since the East Texas strike of 1930, the North Slope promises to lessen U.S. dependence on oil from the Middle East. Walter Levy, internationally known oil consultant, estimates the find could run as high as 20 billion barrels, enough to increase U.S. reserves by two-thirds...
...knew that his birth date fell in the latter half of the sequence, he could pretty well forget about military service at present draft levels because only about half of the potential 600,000-man pool would be taken. If he made it through his 19th year without being drafted, he would be free unless a national emergency occurred that exhausted the supply of 19-year-olds...
...insists that his plan can add between 250,000 and 350,000 units a year to U.S. housing starts, which are limping along at an annual rate of 1,500,000 and have been declining for three months. Named Operation Breakthrough, the plan calls for states and cities to pool their separate, federally subsidized projects into large-scale "mass markets." The Secretary hopes to attract giant corporations into housing construction and to wring economies from volume production. Localities would have to remove building codes, zoning and other barriers that fragment today's housing market, inhibit innovations and raise prices...