Word: pools
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...major departures was the sideshow. CBS hired Columnist Art Buchwald in hopes of bringing humor to the proceedings, but during most of his appearances he seemed much less effective than in print. In one sketch, though, while playing an uncommitted delegate wooed by party girls at a hotel pool, Art got off his best line: "If you can't stand the heat, get out of the cabana." ABC scheduled nightly debates between the self-styled "Odd Couple," Conservative Editor William Buckley Jr. and Novelist Gore Vidal, whose latest book is the sex farce, Myra Breckinridge. The confrontation was diverting...
...pints a day, more than the patient's system can stand if the treatment has to be repeated often-as it usually does. And all transfusions carry the risk of hepatitis infection or severe allergic reactions. It was not until 1965 that a Stanford University physiologist, Judith Graham Pool, developed a technique of freezing, thawing and centrifuging fresh plasma to concentrate the AHF. (The rest of the plasma could still be broken down into a dozen other life-saving fractions...
Shoe Under the Curtain. Owings ?and the committee's ? goal is to turn Pennsylvania Avenue into Washington's ceremonial street ? a rival to Paris' Champs-Elysées. When completed, it will run straight and wide from a great reflecting pool at the foot of the Capitol to a National Square before the White House. Crucial to the plan is the 75-ft. setback along the avenue's north side, which is already being redeveloped by the Government and private entrepreneurs. To keep the setback, Owings has had to deploy his considerable powers of suasion. When he learned...
...spokesman for the Selective Service announced Wednesday that the draft call for those two months would be limited to the pool of 90,000 men. This is a temporary economy measure necessitated by Congressional action requiring reductions in federal spending...
...Rolls-Royce?she seems devoted to her celebrated husband. With no children, the Fortases find ample time for recreation as well as cerebration. During the winter they ski; during the summer they swim. They summer in Westport, Conn., and their permanent home in Georgetown has a swimming pool boasting a bubble top for year-round...