Word: pooling
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Reporters hop into chauffeur-driven, air-conditioned Mercedes-Benz limousines and rush out onto the highways. Three, four, five hours later they begin trickling back-the lucky ones-to a lawn-edged pool at the stately, decaying Royal Hotel. Sipping lemonade or good Russian vodka, they trade experiences. Nothing to the north for 20 klicks (kilometers). All quiet at Kompong Speu, but the city is deserted and still smoldering from a Communist mortar attack that morning. "You should have seen this one old lady," says a reporter. "She had a line of bullets up her leg. The goddam wounds were...
Around the pool lie lovely French birds wearing marvelously brief bikinis, nurses and wives and daughters from the French community of 3,000. They twitter and chat, their enchanting laughter wafting across the crystal pool like a breeze of homesickness...
Corporate officials, many of whom once denied that their firms had a drug problem, are trying increasingly to cope with it. Last week representatives of 17 major organizations in New York City, including Atlantic Richfield, the New York Times Co., Manufacturers Hanover Trust and Chemical Bank, met to pool information on means of combatting drug abuse on the job. The Merchants & Manufacturers Association in Southern California has instituted a series of "shop talks" on handling drugs; the meetings have attracted hundreds of corporate officials...
...however, Cairo is beginning to look like Moscow-on-the-Nile. "My God," he complained, "even the shopkeepers assume you speak Russian." At the Gezira Sporting Club, once a famous British watering spot, he observed a number of Russians as well as East Germans and Czechs "lying around the pool reading Pravda...
...kids start thinking about some real heroes instead of phony heroes." What riles Bouton most of all is the accusation that he makes everyone look bad except himself. "Good God," he says, "I'm in there most of all. I'm bare-assed naked in a swimming pool at a Hollywood party with martinis in both hands, shouting for joy. How's that for self-image...