Word: pools
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have long loved the Town Pump as a home away from home. It's possible to have your laundry delivered at the Pump and then lose your shirt at Horse, a tough, three-handed card game. Pinochle players have their own corner; the Euchre Club meets Wednesday night. Pool shooters have their table (darts are too damn dangerous). You can buy farm-fresh eggs or homemade horseradish, or leave messages on the bulletin board. No voluptuous nude behind the bar here; there is a slightly salacious wall mural painted by a customer of long ago. Summertime finds a horseshoe...
...clubs strive to provide their members with the sensation of a man suspended half-way down in his swimming pool, breathing through an squalung--a sort of nullo-euphoria. The club that is most successful in denying the existence of a world outside is the Porcellian...
...Grill, with arched doorways and central fountain. In front, guests can wander onto an outdoor "cafe plaza," one floor below lobby level; in back, they can sip tall drinks beneath mustard-colored umbrellas in a Japanese-style formal garden crisscrossed with bridges, or take a dip in the swimming pool...
...bleakest days has the draft loomed quite so doomful in the eyes of high school and college graduates. Induction quotas are up threefold over last year; 319,887 men have been called in the past eleven months, another 150,000 are expected to go in the next year. The pool of single 26-, 25-and 24-year-olds is fast being depleted. Local draft boards are digging deeper into their files, searching for 23-, 22-and 21-year-olds. And there stands the Class of '66. Careers dangle in doubt; weddings are postponed; even hard-earned degrees suddenly seem...
Eurodollars have been used to finance municipal borrowing in Britain, imports in Italy and even a national-budget deficit in Belgium. More and more American companies, cajoled or clubbed by President Johnson into keeping their money at home, are financing expansion in Europe out of the Eurodollar pool. Says a Zurich banker, "U.S. companies in Europe are soaking up Eurodollars like a sponge." Last week the International Business Machines World Trade Corp., overseas arm of IBM, opened a $35 million line of Eurodollar credit...