Word: pools
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...before long they will be sweating out midday temperatures that can reach 130° in unshaded areas. Flies and sandstorms are routine, hailstorms are seasonal. To ease the inevitable boredom, there will be tennis, volleyball, movies, and television from both Cairo and Tel Aviv. There will be no swimming pool, however, because there is not enough water...
...facing east and the cocktail and dining area facing west," complained Millionaire Stewart Mott, 38, describing his hopes to build the perfect Manhattan home. Begun three years ago atop the 54th floor of a new apartment building, the four-story penthouse was to include a solarium kitchen, a library, pool, four bedrooms, office space for up to seven secretaries, a multilevel grand salon and more than 1,500 sq. ft. of terrace for Mott's main passion: organic vegetable gardening. The fastest-growing item at Mott's midtown Xanadu, however, was the construction bill, which climbed from...
...ruling is comparable to a decree by a Roman emperor that participants in orgies must be fully clothed at all times. Pool builders insist that at least 50% of their prospective customers will not go near the water if it is unheated. Though there are already 225,000 pools in Southern California and 12,000 more are added each year, this seemingly irreversible growth rate may now be stopped, so to speak, cold. Swimming-pool heaters are a use of energy the state cannot afford, argues the commission. Not so, says the industry, which contends that the natural gas used...
...possible poolhole is a concession by the commission that it will allow pools and small redwood "spas" to be heated "for therapeutic purposes." In the future, heated pools may have to be called natatoriums, while their owners brandish doctors' certificates attesting that they are polio victims. Other Californians may have to join pool pools...
Administrators at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences hesitate to evaluate the success of newly formulated minority recruiting plans until the quality of this year's pool, which is almost double that of last year, is evaluated...