Word: pools
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...house itself has undergone considerable renovation since the Nixons bought it in July for $340,000. The somber interior has been brightened and refurnished with provincial pieces by Mrs. Nixon. The tennis court has been replaced by a 22-by-44-ft. swimming pool. Security has been guaranteed by 1,500 ft. of new fencing and several observation posts constructed in the same tile-roofed style as the villa's main buildings. Spotlights have been installed on the bluff to illuminate the ocean at night. Even the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co., whose line runs along the base...
After a few days she returned to her vigorous regimen: early morning Mass, a noontime swim in her pool or in Nantucket Sound, and a solitary afternoon of golf on the back nine of the Hyannisport Club. In between, she devotes time to her heavy correspondence, her work in behalf of the mentally retarded, and reading. She has received books on Greek history from Jackie Onassis, and an invitation to go on to Greece on her forthcoming visit to Paris to see her daughter Eunice and her son-in-law, U.S. Ambassador Sargent Shriver...
...life can stand as a kind of example for the harried leisure class. He does not own a swimming pool, a boat or a summer cottage and frowns on watching television while eating dinner, reading the newspaper or making love. His way of using consumption time -Linderese for leisure-is to take a walk somewhere. This month he and his 9-year-old son Goran will leave for a hike through the mountains of Da-larna in central Sweden...
...Nassau Bay motel, across the street from Houston's Manned Spacecraft Center, NASA engineers, secretaries and technicians gathered around the large pool to feast on barbecued chicken and beef and corn on the cob. Before the sun was down the celebrants numbered close to 3,000, and one of them-a shapely blonde-had been heaved into the pool. A man in a business suit dived after her. Another dived after him. A bikini-clad go-go dancer go-goed it on the diving board (to the low-down accompaniment of a group called "The Astronauts"), while leering spectators...
Died. The Rev. A. D. Williams King, 38, younger brother of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and himself an active civil rights leader; of accidental drowning in his swimming pool; in Atlanta. For years, "A.D.," as he was called, worked in his brother's shadow as an organizer and detail man. In 1963, after the Ku Klux Klan bombed his home, he led movements for racial integration in Birmingham and open housing in Louisville. In 1968, he assumed his slain brother's co-pastorate at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta...