Word: pools
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that "the actual assassination has no place in this case." He was quickly overruled by Judge Edward Haggerty, a raspy-voiced jurist who has displayed as much feel for sweep and pageantry as Garrison; he had introduced the jurors to the press by parading them around a motel swimming pool. Said Haggerty: "I can't tell the state how to run its case, if they want to overprove...
Nixon's lack of rapport with Negroes obviously bothered him. So in company with the capital's Negro mayor, Walter Washington, the President dropped into a black ghetto, shook hands with the boys at the local pool parlor, and inspected the clearing of ruins caused by the Washington riots. Then he brought out a tough new anticrime program for the capital (see following story...
...anti-star attitude itself threatens to become a new pose or convention in which the Hollywood swimming pool is replaced by the interesting East Side pad, the Valley ranch by a Martha's Vineyard retreat, the antic table-hopping by frantic political activism. At any rate, both Farrow and Hoffman live and breathe the new freedom; both have opted for the small apartment over the big house, the East over the West, Both feel that though there may be New York and New York, and Chicago and Chicago, there is only one Los Angeles. "I'm not connected with...
Still, apart from the analysis, a new Greenwich Village apartment and a pool table, he remains a champion of inconspicuous consumption. The night of the Academy awards, Hoffman?nominated for The Graduate?called a friend, Actor Stanley Beck. "It was about 1 o'clock in the morning," says Beck. "The phone rang. It was Dusty. 'Hey, can you pick me up?' he says. There he is, out at the Academy awards the night he's been nominated for an Oscar, and he has no car, no driver, no place to sleep. I told him to take...
Such complaints are not easy to deal with, and often they tend to overshadow more mundane concerns that may be even more important to students. A coed lunch hour? A new cafeteria menu? Trunks for boys too modest to swim naked in the pool? Students at Bushwick High School in Brooklyn-a ghetto school suffering from all the usual sociological ills-demanded such reforms recently and got them, as the New York Times reported last week. In fact, Dr. Leonard Gelber, the principal, credits much of the present calm at Bushwick to a "human relations" committee of students, teachers...