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Beyond income, it was the sveltest, splashiest, most scrambled-after social affair that the nation's capital has seen in many years. Ostensibly, it was to celebrate the Washington opening of Mr. President, a sorry, soggy musical by Irving Berlin still on its way to Broadway. In fact, Mr. President was only the intermission in a three-act social extravaganza...
...applied (or misapplied) physics, the ugly implications of the Soviet resumption of nuclear testing still made the splashiest news of the week. It took physicists themselves to appreciate the larger implications of a much quieter announcement: the discovery of the omega, a new subatomic particle that exists for an infinitesimal fraction of time on the strange borderline between matter and energy. The track of the evanescent omega may some day lead scientists toward a new level of physical understanding...
Villas & Beach Houses. Splashiest of the Kennedy homes is Peter and Pat Kennedy Lawford's nine-room, neo-Spanish beach house in Santa Monica, Calif. The former home of Movie Magnate Louis B. Mayer, the house is done in Metro-Goldwyn-Modrun. It has marble bathrooms, and in the living room, a movie screen rises from the floor at the touch of a button. To accommodate their four children, the Lawfords have converted Mayer's garden greenhouse into a playhouse; though the Pacific is right off their front door, they have a fresh water swimming pool that...
...more than tripled, from 2,500,000 to nearly 8,000,000. And the boom is still growing. The estimated $2.5 billion that boat lovers will spend this year will be just twice the amount they shelled out three years ago in pursuit of the nation's biggest, splashiest new pastime...
...Gordon W. Rudd, president of National Pool Equipment Co., one of the nation's leading poolmakers (1958 sales: $3,001,778). Once a rich man's whim (there were only 28,300 pools, including commercial ones, five years ago), swimming pools today make up one of the splashiest sectors of the nation's leisure market. This year alone, of the 70,000 swimming pools to be built at a cost of $750 million, 46,000 will be private pools, and the total in the nation will rise to more than...