Word: pooling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Scheduled for construction is a 50-meter swimming pool, an ice hockey rink that is convertible to a convocation hall, field house and track, wrestling room, auxiliary gymnasium, and fencing room. Briggs Cage, Watson Rink, Dillion Field House and the tadium will be renovated under the plans...
...found a ghost. One night the chanting of protesters in Lafayette Square filled the darkened White House and she found it "very eerie." But no apparition walked the halls. Another time a thumping on the ceiling turned out to be one of her sons dropping the end of his pool cue on the carpet...
Hank Aaron did it in baseball with home run No. 715; Jim Brown did it in football with seven 1,000-yard seasons; Mark Spitz did it in a swimming pool with his seventh Olympic gold medal. Any day now, Jockey Willie Shoemaker, 44, will do it in horseracing, riding a thoroughbred to victory No. 7,000, setting another of sport's Olympian records for generations to test against. By week's end "Shoe," 4 ft. 11½ in., was one win away, and well past the 6,032 mark set in 1966 by John Longden...
None of this would have been nearly as necessary 15 or 20 years ago. "Harvard-Radcliffe has not always been that high on having foreign students," Malin recalls. Change didn't really come until the early sixties, when the applicant pool began to grow steadily. By 1969, growth had leveled off and the last seven years have seen little variation in the numbers of foreign students flocking to Cambridge...
...visits to the local Sears, Roebuck store, a clerk remembered her name, her children's ages and clothing sizes. Other assets: fruit and vegetables bought from neighboring farms, including a wonderfully fresh local apple juice. Down in Los Angeles, says Bernie, "socially you had to have a swimming pool. Here everyone goes to the Y." In Los Angeles, "you could never get away from the freeway roar. Here, there is silence. And you see the stars when you go out at night...