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...medley relay, John Wurster, Grant Hammond, Tony Obst, and Tom Pringle swam a 1:53.5, beating Kirkland by nearly a body-length. Walter Keats, Tom Pringle, Jeff Dundon and anchor Richard Blumenthal did a 1:36.7--average splits of 24 plus--to win by over half the pool...
...from Washington, Chester Nimitz had studied the statistics of disaster. None conveyed so urgently the task that faced him as the sight that met the admiral at Pearl Harbor on Christmas Day, 1941. Where three weeks earlier the proudest flagships of the U.S. Navy had swung at anchor, only small boats plied through the oil slick, still bringing ashore the dead crewmen of a dead fleet...
...purist who demands nothing less than perfection, a good test pattern with which to start the morning is Barbara Walters, comely regular on the Today show. Her skin should be olive, her anchor desk light mahogany. The set is still performing 17 hours later if Johnny Carson signs off sunburned behind a light green desk. For fans who tune in late on thin-skinned shows, color Lassie strawberry blond and Batman's tights puce, his cape true blue...
...yard freestyle relay didn't present much of a problem either as Jim Seubold, Andy Grinstead, Dick Saxe, and Bill Shrout won easily in 3:22.5. Shrout, in his only race of the afternoon, whipped through the anchor leg with no one near him in 48.2, seconds...
...sleek, twin-stacked Yugoslav cruise ships floated at anchor in Tripoli harbor last week, set up as dockside hotels for all comers. Tripoli's landlocked hotels are booked solid for the next three months, and taxicab drivers are taking advantage of the crush of visitors to charge exorbitant sums for short hops around town. On the edge of town, workmen are hammering the last exhibits together for the 30 countries that will be represented at the annual Tripoli International Fair, which opens next week and will attract a record influx of visitors...