Word: poole
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With Mardi Gras only a week away, Frank Fullmer should be both busy and prosperous. His 53-room Bel-Air Motel (heated swimming pool, free color TV in every room) on a major highway into New Orleans is strategically located to catch the annual stampede of carnival-bound tourists. This year, however, fully one-third of his rooms are empty. "We ought to be filling up about now," he frets. "I guess people just don't want to take a chance this year...
...team's finale an "excellent showing" in light of insufficient practice and reduced team size. "One of the difficult things for us was that we didn't get enough time in the water after Christmas. We had trouble with practice schedules and had a broken pump in the Radcliffe pool," McCabe said...
Sophomore Hess Yntema led the Crimson with victories in both the 200-yd. individual medley and the 500-yd. freestyle. His times of 1:56.9 in the individual medley and a very fast 4:44.5 in the freestyle shattered two Cornell pool records...
...History has a way of clearing leaders like President Nixon after all the verbal and printed mud of trivialities sinks to the bottom of the pool and the clear water of truth and performance again appears at the top. My only disappointment in the President will come if he ever resigns, or permits impeachment, without a fight...
...teeth. At 90, she is as defiantly unconventional as she was in the opening years of the century, when the nation was never sure whether to be delighted or mortified by her then shocking antics-donning riding breeches, driving an automobile, smoking cigarettes, jumping fully clothed into a swimming pool. "Outrageous?" she asks. "Not at all. If I had jumped in without my clothes, that would have been outrageous...