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...into deep and comfortable modern chairs. At noon, the 1,200 employees all had a free three-course meal (main course: roast beef) in a spacious cafeteria; afterward, they could stroll along shady paths through 27½ landscaped acres surrounding the building. Off work at 4:15, they could swim in a big (75 ft. by 42 ft.) swimming pool, play tennis on two courts, get a book from the free lending library...
...governors' conference in Houston, while the elders sweated over the problems of state, Virginia, Dorothy and Nina ("Honeybear") Warren went for a swim in the Shamrock Hotel pool, flashed gleaming smiles to prove that life with father can be fun. After the little convention, the girls headed for Chicago with more smiles for daddy at the Big Show...
...West Coast television audience saw a new kind of dramatic show last week. For 15 hours and 50 minutes, a camera boat followed Florence Chadwick (first woman to swim the English Channel in both directions) in her course across the choppy 21-mile Catalina channel off San Pedro, Calif. Finally, cold, exhausted and bucking a four-knot current, she signaled her helpers to pull her into the boat less than a mile from shore...
...library, the lecture platform, the school and college education" for the struggling settlers. As such, they had to be understandable to all sizes of intellects. Wrote Cotton Mather of the Rev. John Eliot, an early New England divine: "The very lambs might wade into those discourses-wherein elephants might swim...
...example, since none of the Italian garrison knew how to assemble a new machine gun, the British prisoners were asked to assist; the British obliged, thoughtfully omitting to install several vital parts. When the captives were taken on a picnic, the Italian officers and guards joined them for a swim, leaving a British general on shore to guard the clothes and the small arms...