Word: pooling
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...collar of his bulky white cardigan to expose the embroidered red "B.R." on the breast of his black polo shirt, Rose said he hoped to fill the empty places in his mansion with more antique furniture. As for his garden: "I may glass that in and build a swimming pool, if it's not too expensive, for warming my old bones. Nobody pampers me; I got to pamper myself...
...West Germany aging (25) Dreamboat Groaner Elvis Presley, due for release from the U.S. Army in March, was promoted from specialist four (in a motor pool) to acting sergeant, but will get no pay boost (from his present $135.30 a month) until his promotion allocation is confirmed. Explained his commanding officer, a captain: "He has earned the job. We need a good man right away...
...Already the most remarkable swimmer the world has ever known, Australia's Latvia-born John Konrads, 17, thrashed through a Sydney pool to lower his world record for 220 yds. by .3 sec. with a time of 2:01.9, round into form for his ambitious attempt this month to capture or better every world freestyle record from 100 meters on up. In all but four events (100 meters, 110 yds., 200 meters, 400 meters), Konrads will be swimming against himself, since he already holds every other record...
...wary Western diplomats listened hopefully, but wondered if it was not just another refrain from a familiar Russian lullaby). In Paris, Under Secretary of State Douglas Dillon exhorted 18 members of the Organization for European Economic Cooperation to join the U.S. and Canada in a gigantic economic pool to help solve mutual problems and share the heavy responsibility for aiding underprivileged nations...
...Angeles, Dr. R. Bernard Finch, wealthy and socially prominent physician (with a big swimming pool), and Carole Tregoff, his pretty paramour, were in the midst of a trial for their lives, accused of murdering the doctor's wife in cold blood. On the other side of the world the missing heiress to a typewriter fortune, Debutante Gamble Benedict, turned up in Paris with her Rumanian lover, a married man (see PEOPLE...