Word: poole
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...competition is likely to make has-beens out of four U.S. schoolgirls-none of them over 17-who last week put on the most remarkable display of record smashing in the history of the Women's A.A.U. Swimming Championships. In four days at Philadelphia's Kelly Pool, nine world and 13 American records were demolished, and U.S. aquatic status soared to suzerain heights...
...Next day she invited Don to entertain a swinging party of 35 at her rented home in Kahala. So swinging, Ho says, that he pitched the Capri-pants-clad hostess into her own swimming pool...
...Pooling the Risk. There is some recent history to indicate what will happen after the 90 days. In the two years since Los Angeles' Watts riots, which caused about $40 million in insured damage, rates for property coverage in the area have at least doubled; some 1,000 ghetto merchants have complained that they cannot get insurance at all. Watts now has only two major retail stores, one of them a new White Front Inc. department store with fortress-like slits instead of display windows, especially designed to thwart brick throwers. To meet the Los Angeles situation, 108 California...
...site picked for the Hirshhorn Museum is actually on a secondary axis laid out on the Mall 50 years ago, and Bunshaft emphasizes this by projecting across the Mall a 500-ft.-long reflecting pool surrounded by broad walkways for outdoor sculpture displays. But he had no desire to interrupt the two-mile vista that stretches from the Capitol past the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial-a vista Bunshaft considers "one of the greatest in all architecture." Instead, he has sunk the pool and sculpture area 7 ft. below the Mall level. So vast are distances in official Washington...
...Negro in the cities requires a better education, extensive job retraining, and a massive pool of steady labor opportunities to break the vicious poverty circle in which he swirls about. Yet this has not been forthcoming. The Federal anti-poverty program has done little moren than tantalize him. A lot of talk from Washington and the politicians--and very little action or money. The Vietnam war and a disastrously reactionary Congress are to blame for the shortage of funds and programs...