Word: pools
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cover was slugged "Games Singles Play," and it showed a beautiful young woman-suntanned, blond, and large of breasts and teeth-standing by the pool of a "swinging singles" apartment complex. She wore a skimpy purple bikini and held a glass of red wine in her hand. On the decking behind her lounged two bronzed young men, who seemed ready, when the picture taking was over, to join their woman friend in something hedonistic...
Police were mildly surprised to find a fully clothed gentleman posing for pictures in a Washington, D.C., fountain one morning last week. They were astonished to see the same person half an hour later, this time splashing in the Reflecting Pool on the Capitol Mall. "One of the cops asked my photographer something like 'Whatareyadoin?' " recalled Humor Columnist Art Buchwald, who explained that he was merely creating a cover for his new book, Washington Is Leaking. "But that was it. Tourists just walked by-like everybody stands up to their hips in Reflecting Pool water." Well, not exactly...
...League President Lee MacPhail. At least they chewed on it. Last week in what they called their "final and best offer," they proposed to let present major leaguers play out one-year options on current contracts and become free agents. But each would then be put in a "reentry" pool where only eight of the 24 teams (including his old club if it wished) could bid for his services, with the teams that finished lowest in the previous year's standings allowed first crack at being among the eight...
...Understood? Then, once this present disorder has been worked through, the owners proposed that all future contracts have a "seven and one" clause that would allow seven-year veterans to demand they be traded or permitted to enter the free-agent pool following the option year. "The nice thing about this," joked Chub Feeney, MacPhail's opposite in the National League, "is that Lee and I are the only ones who understand it." Next day Marvin Miller said he understood it and did not much like it, particularly the interim offer dealing with current contracts. The eight-team limit...
...chorines rode decoratively in Ferris wheels, bowed neon-lighted violins while they whirled in triple-hooped skirts, played acres of white pianos for 100 top-hatted swains. Footlight Parade featured the precision swimming and diving of 150 movie mermaids, filmed from a plate-glass corridor underneath the mammoth pool, all of which cost $10,000 per screen minute. The nostalgia wave of the early '70s brought Berkeley back to Broadway to supervise the production of No, No, Nanette with an intimate chorus of only 34, led by early Berkeley Protegee Ruby Keeler...