Word: poole
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...playoffs. Their star center, Bob McAdoo, is a fingernail-biting acrophobiac who played with erratic brilliance in his first year but is leading the N.B.A. in scoring in his second. Guard Ernie DiGregorio, barely 6 ft., looks like an Italian leprechaun more suited to racking balls in a pool hall than leading the league in assists. Forward Jim McMillian, the guiding spirit of the team, is a thoughtful graduate from Columbia University, hardly a major source of basketball talent. Two other steady performers, Forward Garfield Heard and Guard Randy Smith, are virtual unknowns...
...which lost $21 million in January. The request raises antitrust complications and will have to be cleared by the Justice Department. If approved, the partial merger likely would allow Pan Am to abandon some foreign cities now served by both lines-London, Paris, Rome, Frankfurt and Lisbon-and pool its revenues with TWA on other international routes. TWA professes "interest" in the idea, and Vice President George Burns raises the possibility that TWA planes might fly someday with Pan Am stewardesses...
Lewis said he doubts that Nixon will be impeached, barring new disclosures. He took a pool of Congress in October that showed only 26 percent in favor of impeachment...
Both Bennett, who was seeded fourth in his pool, and Rutledge, who had an eighth-place seed, will be ranked among the top five in their weapons going into today's opening round of the finals. And Marion, who hasn't had an All-American since Geza Tetrallyay finished fifth in epee two years ago, is optimistic about their chances...
...presence or absence of content form this magazine is not even debatable. To attempt reading People for information is futile. To read it for entertainment is to define as pleasure an onanistic spasm at the dropping of somebody's name. Gerald Ford in a swimming pool and Raquel Welch in a purple blouse are not very stimulating. And so we reach the question of what the people at Time Inc. think they are offering, and why the people who buy the magazine think it is worth having...