Word: pools
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fonder Memories. Top of the list for most camera-toting visitors is a version of the famous Brussels marble Manneken-Pis fountain statue and the spectacular 104-ft.-long Neptune Pool, kept a constant 70° while Hearst lived. The pool was last used as a set for Spartacus, and it required no added props. As laid out by Hearst's architect, Julia Morgan, it is surrounded by two Etruscan-style colonnades, backed by a Greco-Roman temple, and fronted by a marble Birth of Venus. Equally awe-inspiring is the 83-ft.-long assembly hall with an immense...
Farm Bureau Federation formed to pool farmers' purchasing power and made it one of the U.S.'s biggest farm coops, in 1926 founded a mutual auto-insurance firm that became Nationwide Insurance Companies (3,000,000 policyholders, $760 million assets), then after World War II took the idea of little people helping little people to CARE, ot which he was the first president; of pneumonia; in Columbus...
...draft calls have inched steadily upward. Last month's total - 49,300 - was the highest since early 1951, the peak mobilization period of the Korean War, when 80,000 men a month were called. The effect has been to deplete the nation's 1-A manpower pool to the point at which Selective Service headquarters is now forced to find new ways to replenish...
...crease the system's safety margin. To prevent the area's vast, interlocking power grid from being pulled down again, newly designed switches have been installed in northwestern New York State so that the southern part of the system can automatically cut itself off from the pool...
...deferment, however, would carry with it an obligation for the man to throw his name back into the pool at the end of the deferred period -- thus eliminating the inequity associated with the present 2-S deferment...