Word: pools
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...escrow until there is a settlement of claims by Alaska's 55,000 Indians, Aleuts and Eskimos, who argue that the land was originally theirs. Oil companies covet leases to 58 million of the disputed acres that are part of the Arctic North Slope field, the largest known pool of oil in the U.S. (reserves estimated at well over 5 billion bbl.). After Nixon named him to the Cabinet, Hickel promised: "What Udall can do by executive order, I can undo...
...Everett Dirksen's 73rd birthday, and the Illinois Senator opened the romp and circumstance by dipping into a voluminous chocolate cake. Then Ev marched his guests in to inspect his latest joy: the kidney-shaped heated indoor swimming pool that he and his wife have built at their Leesburg, Va., home. Both Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew stopped by to pay their respects, and unlike the pool-dunking days of the New Frontier, not a soul was dampened in the drink. "But it was still a fun party," reported Mrs. Dirksen. "The two elects and the birthday boy proposed...
Sprinter Homer Lane may be credited with making the afternoon bearable for Columbia fans. Lane was the meet star as he took first in the freestyle at 50 and 100 yards. In the 50-free, Lane recorded a time of 21.9 to break the existing pool and Columbia records...
...inequities of exempting the remainder were not flagrant. Now, despite Viet Nam, military draft needs are dropping, partly because in 1966 Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara started a "project 100,000," which slightly lowered mental and physical standards and drew 70,000 unanticipated volunteers into the forces. Meanwhile, the pool of men in the draftable years is rising, increasingly replenished by the baby boom of the late '40s. Armed forces manpower needs have run at 300,000 a year lately, but they will probably drop to 240,000 this year. On the other hand, the number of men aged...
...Lions have been thrashed by every team they have been into the pool with this season, and are last in the league with an 0-3 record. Their closest loss was to Rutgers by 62-41, but Army, Navy, and Princeton have all beaten Columbia by at least 50 points in E.I.S.L. competition...