Word: pools
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Saarinen's premature death in 1961, but by then final plans were all but complete. Bunshaft, as Mr. Outside, had given the theater a mighty proscenium entrance with a towering concrete truss that spans 150 ft., yet rests on only two columns. Fronting it is a shimmering reflecting pool, set off by British Sculptor Henry Moore's Reclining Figure (see color...
...cast could handle a senior-class play. Instead of drawing from the pool of New York's unparalleled acting talent, Lincoln Center has chosen to import too many of the San Francisco minor-leaguers of Irving-cum-Blau. All this grandiose amateur night lacks is the famous gong of Major Bowes...
Summoning in a four-man press pool, Johnson chatted about the amazing productivity of the 89th Congress. The session, he said, reminded him of "an old song that we used to sing in the hills of Texas, 'Keep on doing what you're doing to me, because I like what you're doing to me!'" He admitted that he had been disappointed a few times, but allowed: "You never get everything you want." On the other hand, he could not resist adding, "If Hubert and I were up there representing the House and the Senate...
...urged Prince Bernhard. It was midnight, and everyone was feeling pretty democratic, but the palace aide, for some curious reason, still demurred. So finally, the Prince himself sneaked over, seized The Netherlands' Queen Juliana, 56, clad in a cocktail dress and suavely heaved her into the swimming pool at the Hotel Caravanserai on St. Maarten in the Netherlands Antilles. Thus the Dutch royal couple, on a ten-day tour of the islands, regally put everyone at ease. Prince Bernhard had already been dunked in his tux, most of the other guests had followed him in like a pack...
Outside Pomona, Calif., one development has built houses with a pretentious name ("Tiffany") but a practical attraction: a covered swimming pool just half a dozen steps away from the kitchen. Prices for the houses: $22,450 to $33,450. Other amenities offered by builders now include long, narrow windows that extend from ground to roof: hi-fi systems with outlets in every room: and television hookups between front door and kitchen so that housewives can see who is calling...