Word: pools
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This Monday would have been their 18th wedding anniversary, an occasion for a party in the old frenetic Kennedy style at Hickory Hill, with children and pets much in evidence and perhaps friends in evening clothes ending up spluttering in the swimming pool. Instead, a memorial Mass for Robert Kennedy would be held two days later at a small nearby church...
...Kennedy touch" (forward passing legal anywhere on the field) continued on the broad, sloping lawn, with Astronaut John Glenn and then Campaign Bodyguard William Barry taking Bobby's place as quarterback. The children swam in the pool whenever the soggy weather improved. But Ethel Kennedy's best therapy was the exuberance of Christopher, 4, Matthew, 3, and Douglas, 15 months, who, too young to understand what had happened, continued in their usual bouncy style, restoring some feeling of normalcy to the stricken household...
...meeting of the Bank for International Settlements was the occasion for a somber review of the past year's dizzying dislocations in world finance. Last fall the pound was devalued. Four months later came the speculative attack on the dollar that resulted in abandonment of the London gold pool. More recently, France's upheaval put unexpected pressures on the franc. "You can't tell the difference between monetary crisis and noncrisis any more," concluded one official at Basel. "Now it's crisis all the time...
...liable for any accident that happens in his swimming pool? In some jurisdictions, the owner must pay damages if his pool is unfenced and a passing child is injured while swimming. But in Baltimore, a recent Court of Appeals decision suggests that an owner's liability does not extend to every circumstance. While visiting a friend, Eugene Telak, 35, decided to take a dip. Though an accomplished swimmer, he smashed his head on the bottom after diving from the board, and floated to the surface paralyzed-a quadriplegic for life. He sued, arguing that his host should have warned...
...When a pal wants to have a serious talk with Scott about his marital problems, they go to lunch at a topless restaurant so that the camera can do some plain and fancy dollying. Lester also swings a skillful and satirical lens around deserted Fort Winfield Scott, the Penguin Pool at Fisherman's Wharf and the hippie scene, contriving somehow to get his actors into most of the scenes. There is so little for them to do that he need hardly have bothered...