Word: pools
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...yacht boasts a black-sweatered crew of 50 ("More than it needs to run a 40,000-ton tanker," says Onassis), two chefs, 42 extension phones, a bathtub that glitters with mosaic dolphins and flying fish and was copied from King Minos' palace at Knossos, and a swimming pool big enough to hold a Kennedy sloop...
...that rental vacancies in metropolitan areas fell to 4.9% during the first quarter of this year, the lowest level of the decade. The figure runs far lower in many places. One reason is the remarkable proliferation of huge apartment communities loaded with amenities for a leisure age. A swimming pool is no longer enough. In Houston, Developer Jenard Gross' latest 1,250-unit project will also have a shopping center, tennis courts, a gym and sauna baths, along with air-conditioned one-bedroom apartments for $150 a month. Some builders throw in a private cocktail lounge, shuffleboard courts...
...Continent for a long time. It is also the latest effort in the British post office's drive to turn the venerable institution into an aggressive, profit-making enterprise. Giro Director John Grady hopes to pay for operating costs and also make a neat profit by investing the pool of money created by Giro's constant flow of deposits. He expects that the new service will attract about 1,500,000 customers and $450 million in deposits within a year...
...spectators flooding in from all over the world. The government spent something like $150 million. University City Stadium, for track competition, was enlarged. Other facilities: a second, 100,000-seat stadium for soccer, a 22,000-seat geodesic-domed Sports Palace for basketball and boxing, a suspended-roof pool with unobstructed sight lines for 10,000 spectators for the swimming events. For the competitors themselves, there was a $12.5 million Olympic Village with 29 six-and ten-story apartment buildings, six mess halls, a Tartan training track, a shopping center and a clinic...
Often, white executives pool their assistance. One successful instance is Rochester Business Opportunities Corp., which grew out of a proposal made by Eastman Kodak. R.B O.C. provides technical expertise in everything from plant layout to accounting, has set up a free night class in business management at a local college. So far the organization has helped 24 Negroes to start businesses. Xerox teamed up with R.B.O.C. and a militant Negro organization named FIGHT to establish a Negro-owned company to manufacture transformers and metal stampings. Xerox will buy $500,000 worth of them yearly...