Word: poole
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...into battle with combat units, a practice commonly allowed by the U.S. military in South Viet Nam. Cairo even barred most Egyptian reporters from the front, though journalists of all nationalities were taken on a few brief, tightly guided excursions in the Sinai. When correspondents elected a 14-man pool for one such visit, Russian journalists walked out because the choice did not assure balance among Western, Communist and "Third World" newsmen...
...room motel was scheduled to be built at 104 Mt. Auburn St., where the Coolidge Bank and Trust is now located. The plans also called for a swimming pool, a restaurant and five floors of parking. In 1964, an Amoco service station occupied the site...
...those at home was House Minority Leader Gerald Rudolph Ford, 60, keeping his cool in his suburban Virginia home with a 20-minute swim. He had just climbed out of the pool, the dinner steaks were on the burner, when the telephone rang. It was the President. Puckishly, almost as though he were a secretary, he said: "Jerry, Al Haig has a message for you." The White House chief of staff came on the line and said: "I've got good news for you. The President wants you to be Vice President." Haig suggested that Ford might want...
Square-jawed and still in shape, Ford jogs, skis and daily swims laps in the heated pool behind his modest brick and clapboard house in Alexandria, Va. Betty Ford once danced with the Martha Graham troupe and worked as a Powers model in New York City before her marriage. She shuns politicking, concentrating instead on their three sons and one daughter, and once proudly described the family as "squares." Ford's closest friends tend to be other Republican leaders, among them Nixon's domestic adviser, Mel Laird...
...development mirrors the city as a whole in its proportion of black residents-around seven per cent-racism underlies much of the ill-feeling in the development. Blacks are concentrated in the tower building, because turnover there is highest, and they are the latest group to enter the applicant pool for public housing. Asked why conditions in the tower are worse than those in the low-rises, a white youth replied, "Because the niggers live there...