Word: pooling
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...vast majority of U.S. youngsters, Garn notes. As calories have become more accessible and irresistible, the chances to work them off in healthy exercise have diminished. "In many of our great cities," he writes, "safe opportunities for strenuous play now scarcely exist . . . As suburbia expands . . . the car pool and the school bus reduce the energy expenditure, and the ranch house no longer provides calorie-expending stairs to climb...
...search for additional sources of cheap power (and cheap raw materials) has also led it to Africa, where it joined an international consortium, including Olin-Mathieson, to build an aluminum plant in Cameroon, helped build an ore-processing plant in Guinea (with a housing development and community swimming pool), is planning still other plants in Guinea and the Republic of the Congo. Its Lacq plant will raise the company's aluminum capacity to 200,000 tons, about four times its 1949 capacity, but only half the company's 1965 goal...
...real and exciting." What is needed, says Funston, is more required courses and more and better teachers. As an example of what can be done, Funston cited the twelfth-grade teacher in New York's Nyack High School who collected 50? from each pupil to form an investment pool. Together the class conducted an enthusiastic search for the right company in which to invest their $18, finally bought one share of American Zinc (price last week: $15), avidly followed the market fortunes of "their" company all year-learning something of taxes, tariffs and fiscal policy in the process...
Nothing in the world of sport is more ephemeral than the careers of champion girl swimmers. No sooner do the girls reach their peak at around 18 than they get interested in careers or marriage, and become bored with thrashing through a chlorine-tanged pool. But in Sydney last week, Aussie Veteran Dawn Fraser staged one of the sport's great performances. Her age: an advanced...
...Dawn was far from done. Churning far faster than her rivals, she swept through four laps in the 55-yd. pool in 2:11.6, to slash a full 3.1 sec. from her world's record...