Word: pools
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bright, warm Sunday afternoon. President Eduardo Frei was watching an air show outside Santiago when an invisible force seemed to seize and shake him. In Santiago's Hipodromo, 3,000 racing fans fled in panic as the grandstand roof heaved and cracked. Terrified swimmers in the open-air pool of the Hotel Carrera watched the water suddenly leap in foot-high waves. Three blocks away, cornices peeled off the Supreme Court and Congress buildings and rained down on the street...
Sharks on TV. The fact is that the pool-hall sharks - those sly profession als who once traveled the U.S. preying on amateurs - are finding it tougher and tougher to make a living. Not that the game has declined. There are as many pool halls as ever - it's just that they like to be called les académies de billard now. No more spittoons, no more raucous voices. Tables are covered with pink felt, and ladies, bless their well-chalked tips, are taking up the game. Pool halls even hire "knockers" to protect patrons from the hustlers...
Kisses & Gamesmanship. In the finals, Balsis' opponent was none other than Wimpy Lassiter. A master gamesman in the tradition of Robert Cannafax, who used to pull a knife and stab himself in his wooden leg while his opponent was shooting, Lassiter complained of a fever, sinusitis and ulcers. "Pool players all die of malnutrition at 50," he moaned. "I've got four years to live...
...delights indoors. The plaza already boasts sculptures by Henry Moore, Renoir, and a welded stainless steel abstraction by Germany's Norbert Kricke. Astraddle one reflecting pool is a trio of Alexander Calder stabile-mobiles, whose balancing paddles are propelled sporadically by water jets. The U.S. sculptor's metal bathers were commissioned by the museum's Art Museum Council, an active volunteer group of 200 ladies. They are kiddingly called "the Culturettes." In tribute, Calder topped his work with two waving black disks, like Mickey Mouse ears, and titled it Hello Girls...
...occasion to adjust and go forward. If the new technology eliminates many of the jobs that man has been accustomed to doing, it is also bound to expand greatly the level and variety of human wants. If U.S. farms had never mechanized, for instance, and thus displaced a large pool of labor, the U.S. would have been hard pressed for workers to develop its present industrial might. Says Dr. Yale Brozen, a University of Chicago economist: "Society uses whatever number of people it has. Seventy years ago, 50% of the population farmed. Now only 7% does. That enormous change took...