Word: pools
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shrout had already topped Williams by a yard in the 200-yard freestyle with a near-record time of 1:48.9, and barely three minutes earlier, he had climbed from the pool after a 49.1 victory in the 100. But Williams, with a 40-minute rest since the 200, pulled away steadily and won by a good fifteen yards. Army's Ken Cummings held off Shrout by three yards to clinch the meet...
When the hole is filled, Soto plans to build a swimming pool and tennis courts on the leveled ground, then charge a handsome admission fee to his newly created recreation area...
...British executives of Ford also blame themselves for the situation. In 15 years Dagenham grew twelve times larger than its prewar size, but British management failed to keep up. When Ford of Detroit took control, it was faced with falling profits, a hopelessly hidebound pyramidal management and an inadequate pool of promising young British executives. To correct the situation, Ford rushed over some of its own bright young men, just as it had done without difficulty at the German Ford plant in Cologne. Some of the Americans are at Dagenham temporarily, will be sent on to other countries later...
...which is sexier but not so interesting finally as the elemental battle for survival. In Actor Whitman's display of beefcake villainy, muscles are defined more clearly than motivation or character. The threat of death from heat and starvation seems remote when Susannah lazes by a fresh-water pool while Whitman strides forth fully armed, bagging big and small game with reassuring regularity. Kalahari is most effective when it shows men pushed to the last extremity, as in the brutal spectacle of a wounded gemsbok being slaughtered for food, or in Whitman's climactic hand-to-hand combat...
...philosophy has been carried over from fall co-ed soccer, touch football, swimming and sailing. On long winter evenings Harvard men will be able to join Cliffies in the Radcliffe gym for either badminton, volleyball or submersion in the pool...