Word: pooling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...colleges, only about half the students admitted actually enrolled at Brown. The rest went to schools like Princeton, Yale and Harvard, which has about a 75% "yield." But lately Brown has become very popular. At a time when the end of the baby boom spells a declining applicant pool, the school's applications have jumped 25% in two years. With good reason. Brown works hard to sell itself. The 16 members of the admissions committee are young, diverse, impressive-the kind of mix Brown wants to enroll. The group visits almost 1,000 high schools in the fall...
...acre cattle ranch and the sandy half-moon of Hamoa Beach. Manager Tony de Jetley, an urbane Englishman who is married to a beautiful Hawaiian curiously named Alberta, enumerates 69 regular activities for hotel guests and their children; they range from frond weaving and night tide-pool fishing to breakfast cookouts and quarter-horse riding through terrain often photographed for Marlboro ads. Some families return to Hana as faithfully as Maui's whales. Charles Lindbergh, who lived for seven years with his wife Anne in Hana, is now buried there. Near by are the Seven Pools, two of which...
Good is synonomous with fast in describing swimming pools, and Cleveland State's natatorium is unquestionably the fastest around. Its extreme depth (12-16 ft. in the competition end) and huge, wave-swallowing gutters minimize turbulence and thus, maximize potential for record performances. It is no coincidence that current American swimming records practically parallel Cleveland State pool records...
...NCAA meet competitors set new American records in every event at Cleveland State. Last year, when the meet moved to the shallow-water confines of long Beach's Belmont Plaza pool, the swimmers broke only one of those records...
...simply couldn't build a better pool for competition," University of Southern California swimmer John Naber said after setting three American records in the 1977 NCAA's. "They should have this meet here all the time," he added...