Word: pretzelism
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Shaped like a heart, diamond, kidney, cucumber or pretzel, many a pool is still prized as a status symbol. But as prices, which vary with trimmings and construction difficulties, dip below the $3,500 level, families see the backyard swimming pool simply as a new way for family fun and a sure way to increase property values. Explains C. W. Dearborn, assistant vice president of the California Bank of Los Angeles: "Last year people kept telling me, 'This is the year we normally buy a new car, but they cost too much and they depreciate too fast...
...Republican National Convention. It was nine months since he had turned State Department hair grey as the President's special aide on disarmament and finally had been shown to the gate. Then last May, running for G.O.P. nomination for Governor of Pennsylvania, he was flattened again by Pretzel Manufacturer Arthur McGonigle. But when Stassen's visit lasted almost an hour, reporters were puzzled, hardly knew what to ask when he came...
Pennsylvania: Despite an unexpectedly sturdy showing by Republican Arthur T. McGonigle, 52, Reading pretzel manufacturer, the Democrats manufactured a winning edge for four-time Pittsburgh Mayor David Leo Lawrence...
...eight years testifies, there is plenty of spring left in his lines (95 Poems; Harcourt, Brace; $4). As ever, Poet Cummings celebrates the life of feeling-love, death and the infinite sea changes of nature. Age has only slightly mellowed Cummings, has not at all curbed his typographical pretzel bending-which can now be recognized for the attention-holding device it is. Fresh, singular, vivid and intense, Cummings' verses recall the aim he once set for himself as a poet: "I can express it in 15 words, by quoting The Eternal Question and Immortal Answer of Burlesk...
...white and blue bus, the Republicans' political neophyte, retired Pretzel Manufacturer Arthur Toy McGonigle, 52, was doing his resolute best last week to retrieve the seat in Harrisburg that his party lost four years ago. The ride is uphill all the way. The Democratic candidate is Pittsburgh's four-term Mayor David Leo Lawrence, 69, one of the savviest and deftest political bosses in a state loaded with them. With 55 years in professional politics, and with Pittsburgh's gleaming new skyscrapers and superhighways as personal monuments, Dave Lawrence has a statewide reputation, strong support in Philadelphia...