Word: poole
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...garments a year per family. McCall's Patterns noted that one of its foremost pattern purchasers is Gypsy, turned do-it-yourself seamstress, possibly as penance for all those years of professional disdain. . . . In Vogue as the ninth in the magazine's series of "fashion personalities": pool-eyed Princess Radziwill, 27, third wife of a Polish nobleman turned London businessman. The Princess, married once before, is the former Lee Bouvier, and like her equally attractive sister, Jackie Bouvier Kennedy, is now expecting her second child. Rhapsodized Vogue: "Her clothes-life starts with one enchanting, instantly-visible asset...
...buses. As the queues grew longer and longer, Long Island bus companies pressed some 120 extra buses into service, overloaded the regular runs, still found they were able to take only an additional 25,000 commuters. Most of the railroad regulars then fell back on private autos and car pools. Soon many drivers were getting up at sunrise to beat the bumper-to-bumper traffic on the expressways. Others, map in hand, twisted through country roads and city side streets to avoid the crush, often got lost. "Halfway home," sighed one car-pool commuter, "you usually find...
...expensive imagination. Lytton had his swimming pool filled in to make room for more people at a party he gave last week at his Holmby Hills mansion, wove among his guests with a microphone obtrusively pinned to his lapel so that his each and every word could be heard throughout the grounds over 39 loudspeakers strapped to the shrubbery...
...tossed an impressive challenge at Australia's confident women swimmers last week in the pretty form of five frolicking California teenagers. Gamboling around Indianapolis' huge Broad Ripple Pool like schoolgirls at summer camp, the youthful quintet laughingly struck kooky, cross-eyed poses for photographers, completely captivated the capacity crowd, and set A.A.U. officials rewriting the record books. In just three days at the Women's A.A.U. Swimming Championships, three world and ten American records were smashed, and tarnished U.S. aquatic prestige was suddenly enhanced...
...scheme solves the problem neatly. It produces a bigger child-labor pool, and makes sure that everyone has a state-approved specialty. For youngsters permitted to study fulltime beyond the eighth grade, the ten-year school system is being lengthened to eleven years with the bulk of the gain in vocational training (1,454 hours), science and math (a total of 395 more hours). As for humanities, says Expert DeWitt, "the ax will fall." There is little room for humanities in managing an industrial state...