Word: pools
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chefs. To attract the VIPs, Mobutu spent $10 million that he could hardly afford. On a bluff overlooking the Congo River, he built an entire village to house the delegates, complete with four-bedroom bungalows, tennis courts, a swimming pool and even a miniature golf course. Thirty tons of food were brought in for the occasion, and stewards prepared to serve 600 bottles of imported wine a day to accompany the meals cooked by 20 imported Belgian chefs. While bands played such incongruous tunes as Marching Through Georgia, squadrons of police escorts roared down Kinshasa's boulevards all week...
...riches will help finance many of the improvements in the minds of the city's imaginative leaders, who already have bought the Queen Mary for $3,450,000 for use as a waterfront museum and hotel, and have contracted to build a 3,500-seat A.A.U. pool where the U.S. Olympic trials will be held next year. It is all in line with Long Beach's proud boast of being the "Riviera of the West...
...upright piano into pieces that can fit into a nine-inch hole, a balloon-bursting contest with a caveman's cudgel, and a sprint in which a man mounts a Pogo stick, a girl gets on his shoulders and they hop along a greased gangplank over a pool of water...
...installed in its own permanent museum in Washington, admits that he and his wife bought their Greenwich, Conn., estate in 1961 largely because of the setting it would provide for their sculpture. "I could just picture the Henry Moore under the trees," he says, "the David Smith beside the pool, Rodin's Burghers by the front door. In fact, I bought the property in 20 minutes...
...have to live there. Juarez courts will grant anyone a divorce regardless of where he or she actually lives. Last week the renowned divorce mill was grinding away at an unprecedented rate. All available court personnel had been pulled off regular duty and thrown into the pool typing up decrees. One busy court handled 240 divorces in two hours. At week's end, the total granted since Aug. 1 had reached 4,000, compared with the average 1,000 for a normal month...