Word: pools
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hockey Sticks. Moscow has begun an ambitious building program for leisure-time sport centers, including an Olympic-size saltwater pool. "Our goal," explains Anatoly Eremin, chairman of the Moscow City Council of Sports Societies, "is to provide a sport center for each collective of workers from 500 to 1,000 people." Official spending on hotels and other travel facilities has more than doubled since 1966, and travel is cheap when arranged through the Trade Union Council's group tours...
...Harvard team lacked a unified strategy as a result of a shortage of practice time in the IAB pool, but made up for this problem through outstanding individual performances and experiences gained in the AAU championships...
Fordham is a definite underdog since the Crimson dunked the Rams, 16-8, in advancing to the semifinals of the AAU's. Crimson goalie Phil Whitten said last night, "I think we'll beat them by more this time since we'll be playing in a bigger pool, and they won't be able to score as easily." However, Harvard may be without the services of talented John Montgomery...
...dinner, you never just sit around and talk, because she's not comfortable in that type of situation," says a friend. There is always an activity of some sort?charades, games of "who said that?" based on the day's news?or a movie in the playroom by the pool. A recent guest remembers pushing back from the table after a particularly mountainous meal, only to hear Ethel announce "O.K., everybody, let's have a race," and then lead the way at a full sprint around the lawn...
Otherwise, a raffish, indulgent and hyperactive atmosphere prevailed in the Skakel household. There were servants, a swimming pool, riding horses, a 35-ft. yawl and another smaller sailboat (significantly named, by Ethel, Sink or Swim). The house was always crammed with the children's schoolmates and other visitors, and it was not unusual for 25 people to gather at the Skakels' dinner table...