Word: pooling
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Towers & Tangos. Blackpool's visitors can poke a curious toe into "the world's largest outdoor swimming pool" (1,600,000gallons of cold filtered brine) or ascend the highest tower in Britain, a red-painted, 520-ft. structure that once in a blue sky affords a view of Wales's Mount Snowdon, 150 miles distant. They yo-yo back and forth between fish 'n' chip houses and some of the United Kingdom's most capacious pubs (Blackpool has 105, one of which can handle 1,000 guzzlers at a time). They also toss away...
...went over too far and the entry was bad"), never did recover and finished second to East Germany's cool Ingrid Kramer, a 17-year-old student who started diving five years ago when her father decided to make her into an athlete and pitched her into the pool. The loss was the first ever suffered by the U.S. in the event...
...live on them all. For sale: Bing's 14-room seashore mansion, built in 1948, overlooking California's Pebble Beach Golf Course. Asking price: $250,000. Since the Crosby clan operates as a sort of junior cartel, the real estate agent on the deal is Mary Rose Pool, Bing's sister...
...cheats, each signatory has the right of unlimited inspection. Each nation may establish bases for research or exploration wherever it pleases in Antarctica, but it must suspend its territorial claims for the duration of the treaty. In the meantime, no other claims will be recognized. The nations agree to pool their facilities for the research that has continued in Antarctica ever since IGY: scientists at 33 stations study geology, weather, plant and animal life, and problems of human living under conditions of extreme cold...
...Mike Troy, 19, a stocky Indiana junior who is one of the safest favorites for a gold medal at Rome. In the 200-meter butterfly, he coolly knocked .2 sec. off his own world record by fluttering the four lengths of the pool...