Word: poole
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ford somberly walked into the Oval Office to face a single television camera and a pool of reporters who had been advised to assemble for an important announcement...
What about the armed forces? The pool of 18-to 19-year-old men will shrink from its present 4.1 million to 3.5 million by late 1984, reducing the number of those available for military service. The Defense Department has already increased the number of opportunities for women...
After a last, 20-lap swim in the pool of his Alexandria, Va., home on Monday morning-soon afterward, the Fords moved into the White House-the President began his exhausting week. He flew to Chicago aboard Air Force One to address the Veterans of Foreign Wars. It was Ford's first out-of-town trip as President, and he and his wife Betty were greeted at Chicago's O'Hare Airport with a flubbed announcement. "Ladies and gentlemen," a voice intoned over the airport's loudspeakers, "the President of the United States and Mrs. Nixon...
...most influential and most nearly indispensable adviser. To master the grueling White House pace, he has given up cigarettes, coffee and martinis and dropped, at least temporarily, his hobby of snorkeling and taking underwater photographs near his vacation home in St. Croix. He still swims daily in the pool behind his home in Westgate, Md., and plays boccie, an Italian bowling game that he learned in Rome, on his backyard court. But most of his time is now spent in the White House only a beep away from the President...
...Joker's Wild offers giant slot machines that inform players of their question categories and winnings. Gambit is a variation on blackjack, while High Rollers is essentially a dice game with questions worked in. There are more celebrities -and more well known-on the L.A. shows. A huge pool of talent whose prime-time series have been canceled are glad to pick up this bargain-basement work. The computerlike electronics of the score-keeping on these shows is probably a fallout from the region's interest in space-age technology. The emphasis on rewarding winners with the materiel...