Word: pools
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their own electrical connections, produced tongue-twisting typographical errors. The most embarrassing were the signs touting FLOKLORE OF ETHKOPIA while Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie I was touring the site. At India's pavilion, someone stole the trunk of a clay elephant, and the sturgeons in the Soviet pavilion pool had to thrash about to dodge hundreds of pennies visitors tossed at them...
...more money from other sources. His efforts failed to impress his editors. As they tell it, he once made a trip to Chicago to see if Playboy's Hugh Hefner could help. It took some doing just to see Hefner. "He was always sleeping or swimming in his pool," recalls Managing Editor Robert Scheer. When Keating finally got to Hefner, he drew a blank. By contrast, Hinckle and Scheer succeeded in selling stock to assorted wealthy sympathizers like Frederick C. Mitchell, a University of Kansas history professor, who has put $300,000 into the magazine...
...introduced the company's Flying Red Horse as a symbol of speed, power and reliability, later became something of a symbol himself when he was chosen in 1934 to help F.D.R.'s Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes stabilize the industry's chaotic oil prices by pool-buying arrangements-only to find himself and other oilmen convicted on antitrust charges four years later when the Government decided they'd gone too far; of a stroke; in Summit...
...confirmed details of a go-round over their new Doris Day epic, Caprice. Seems that N.C.O.M.P. wanted Fox to slice out a 3½-sec. strip of film showing Shanghai-born Starlet Irene Tsu in a bikini. Well, not exactly in. In this sequence, Irene dives into a swimming pool, and the impact dislodges the bottom half of her bikini somewhat...
...could have them tended for $1 a week." Not that Bendiner's family had any of those luxuries. Their only fun was buying on the installment plan. The day the Bendiners received a dispossess notice from their Manhattan landlord was also the day they received a regulation-size pool table ordered for the apartment on credit...