Word: poolings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Swank & Slot Machines. The 20-story, 400-room Havana Riviera (up to $40 a day for a double room) is a modern-style palace with egg-crate fagades, wall-to-wall marble, a 78-cabaña pool and ornate saloons. One of its prime functions plainly is to house well-heeled amateur gamblers in soporific luxury and feed them efficiently to the hemisphere's swankiest casino, a domed, elliptical hall with gold-leafed walls, 85 slot machines and 17 tables for craps, blackjack and roulette. One effect was to attract to the opening a fortnight ago the largest...
Swimming & Sand. Jamaica's six-story, 176-room Arawak (up to $58 a day for double with meals) is designed for aficionados of Miami Beach styling: rippling concrete, bright colors, polygonal swimming pool, straw-and-mahogany decor. Its planner was Morris Lapidus, architect of Florida's Fontainebleau, Eden Roc and Americana, who likes his hotels to "tickle and amuse." The $4,000,000 Arawak is set on Jamaica's smart north shore in sunny palm groves between a high, green range of mountains and the azure Caribbean, has a white sand beach. Owners: an international group headed...
Tommy was once plain Thomas Hicks, and his mother worked as a "tinbasher" in a metal-box factory. He served for a time as a swimming-pool attendant on the Mauretania ("I noticed that most of those rich necks also carried plenty of wrinkles"), spent his layovers in Manhattan plunking coin after coin into the jukeboxes to hear Elvis Presley sing Heartbreak Hotel. When Tommy retired from the sea, he bought a guitar and sang for his meals in a succession of sleazy Soho clubs. British Songwriter Lionel Bart heard him, collaborated with him on Rock with the Caveman...
...HUGE GAS POOL will be tapped in Utah and Arizona and piped to West Coast, where natural gas demand is racing ahead of supply. If FPC approves as expected, El Paso Natural Gas Co. will sink 1,000 wells in rich twelve-mile-square area of Utah...
...Summary: 400-yard medley relay--won by Harvard; Murray, Stanley, Hammond, and Mischner; second, M.I.T.; Divine, West, Getchell, and Veeck. Time--4:01.8. (breaks pool record). 220-yard freestyle--Won by Seaton (H); second, Ulbrich (H); third, Kohlman (M.I.T.). Time--2:21. 50-yard freestyle--Won by Zemo (H); second, Rose (H); third, Kane (M.I.T.). Time 24.4. 100-yard butterfly--Won by Hammond (H); second, Perilman (H); third, Getchell (M.I.T.). Time--56.4. (breaks pool record). Dive--Won by Gorman (H); second, Stone (H); third, Cahlender (M.I.T.). 78.38 points. 100-yard freestyle--Won by Boeckler (H); second, Cochran (H); third, Windle...