Word: pools
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...utility-company employee. What is clear is that most of CANUSE's members were not able to quarantine themselves fast enough to save their own systems. Some utilities' officials argue that total quarantine is impossible, given 1) the obligations of a member to come to the aid of its pool, and 2) the speed at which a cascade travels. Nonetheless, Maine was the only New England state completely unaffected by the blackout. It was able to cut off its single, 115-kilovolt line to CANUSE in time. The Pennsylvania-New Jersey-Maryland system escaped because its seven connections to CANUSE...
...Haven association pays Lawyer Charles D. Gill, 27, a salary of $8,000 a year to run his office in a onetime bookie joint next to a pool hall. His clients, mostly Negroes and Puerto Ricans, are carefully screened by 20 Yale law students to determine financial eligibility. The cutoff point: $50 net weekly income per couple, plus $10 per dependent...
...iving rooms. Recently he helped persuade residents of Greenwich, Conn., hat they could afford a new high school costing $11,800,000. Even Indiana's less affluent Lawrence Township approved Engelhardt's $5,000,000 high school. "It's air-conditioned and has a swimming pool; yet we didn't have any kind of friction at all," boasts Superintendent Edwin Estell...
Behind this transformation is Ocean Spray of Hanson, Mass., which produces 85% of all the cranberries grown in the world, has annual sales of $46 million. Ocean Spray is a cooperative that distributes its earnings to a pool of 1,000 growers in Massachusetts (where the sandy-bottomed bogs of Cape Cod prove most hospitable to the berry), New Jersey, Wisconsin, Oregon and Washington State. Formed by a series of mergers in 1930, it has taken much of the risk and uncertainty out of cranberry growing, this fall paid growers $13.99 a barrel for the 1.2 million barrels that their...
...breathtaking to behold, from the gauzy blue-grey magic of a sequence in which Giulietta's grandfather succumbs to a lady bareback rider to her neighbor's improbable Eden - an art-nouveau fleshpot in rainbow hues where sinners can slide a chute from bed to swimming pool or repair to a tree house devised for impromptu seductions...