Word: pools
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nearly 300 college presidencies in the U.S. are vacant this year-which suggests that the nation desperately needs a pool of skilled academic administrators. In the past, the grooming of college chief executives has often owed as much to chance as choice-a reluctant professor unexpectedly does well when his department's revolving chairmanship is thrust upon him, a dean displays a special talent for public relations or fund raising, a learned Government official wants an academic post...
...sudden rise of from 1½ to 5 ft. in the level of the Mississippi caused docked vessels to break loose from their moorings. In Atlantic City, N.J., (more than 4,000 miles from the quake), the thorough scientists report, water sloshed over the top of a hotel swimming pool...
...Virgin Islands, and in this intriguing but eccentric book he describes how he has examined and trained dolphins, recorded and analyzed their voices, lived like them-and even with them. Lilly, a neurophysiologist who has also had training in physics and biophysics, has spent hours underwater in a darkened pool, attempting to understand the sensations experienced by dolphins. He believes that dolphins try to communicate with man by mimicking human voices and he has cooperated in experiments trying to teach dolphins to speak English. (No success...
Thirty-four East House girls swam a record 3049 laps to take the annual Fall Marathon at the Radcliffe pool last week...
...Youth Alliance is young and growing. Its chief recruiter, Frank Wright, goes into the local pool halls to reach potential members. Alliance's independence has given the Roxbury teenagers a sense of their own dignity and power...