Word: pools
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...almost no one had any notion whither he would tend. Newsmen got no hint of the President's plans during his long, sequestered sojourn at the L.B.J. ranch. At the White House, security precautions were so rigid that reporters were barricaded out of hearing range of the typing pool so that they could not eavesdrop on secretaries proofreading the speech aloud. Johnson held his options open until the eleventh hour, ordering innumerable page-by-page rewrites-mostly by outgoing Press Secretary Bill Moyers, chief writer of the speech. Not until 5½ hours before he was to speak...
Swimming like goldfish in a shallow pool...
Michael's powerful Indian swimmers had just mauled Harvard, 57-38, the first Crimson home loss to the Big Green in history. Dartmouth took eight firsts in 11 events, and broke six records, including one Harvard pool record...
...single most destructive Indian was sophomore wonder Al Petersen who smashed five records in the backstroke and the individual medley, including 1963 Yale star Bill Townsend's pool standard for the medley...
Today, CO's are still a small minority of 20,000 (registered I-O) out of a draft pool of 31 million. But the general distaste for the Vietnam war has made conscientious objection almost acceptable. By and large, Harvard CO's experience no social antagonism because of their stand. One CO who lives off-campus recalls his experience with his next door neighbor who had just returned from Vietnam: "He was a little shocked at first and suspected I was a coward. But after we talked about it for a few months and he began to understand my reasons...