Word: pools
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...following morning Carter held a similar two-hour conference with Sadat, this time on Aspen's flagstone patio overlooking the pool. The Egyptian agreed to the joint prayer for peace. Released later that day, it stated in part: "Conscious of the grave issues which face us, we place our trust in the God of our fathers ... We ask people of all faiths to pray with us that peace and justice may result from these deliberations...
...whose pin-striped blue suits and slow, heavily technical speech make him seem the embodiment of fiscal traditionalism. But as a child in Berlin he lived through the insane German inflation of 1923-24. Once his mother gave him 105 billion marks to buy a ticket to a swimming pool that had cost 15 pfennig to enter not long before. But she miscalculated; by the time Wallich got to the pool, the price had risen to 150 billion marks, and he could not get in. Today at 64 Wallich regards inflation as not just an economic but a moral outrage...
...then Texas Longhorns Coach Darrell Royal. Around the state he sees T shirts reading MATTHEW, MARK, LUKE AND WILLIE. He hears his name lightly mentioned for Governor. His father and stepmother-universally known as Mom and Pop Nelson-bask in the legend. Together they run Willie's Pool Hall in Austin, and Pop fronts a country band. Nowadays Mom and Pop also occupy Willie's $300,000 ranch house outside town. Willie's third wife, Connie, 34, a former Houston lab technician, got tired of the way fans treated the house as a combination crash...
This summit meeting may be the most trying test Carter has had of his ability as a negotiator and reconciler. Sitting on the porch of Aspen Lodge, overlooking the pool, he will try to dispel the suspicions and antagonisms that have built up between Sadat and Begin. Said one top Administration official: "It's not so mechanical as in a strategic negotiating session. A lot stems from human qualities and reactions. The introduction of ideas depends on intuitive insight...
...Guillermo Vilas -can now ply their trade on two multimillion-dollar tours, Lamar Hunt's World Championship Tennis and the Grand Prix circuit. However, this year none of them has deigned to play in enough W.C.T. and G.P. events to qualify for the $2 million bonus pool for top players; they can make more money on the outside...