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...hearsay than actual experience. Few men had ever been attacked by them; fewer still lived to tell the tale. Advice on what to do in the presence of a lurking shark was flatly contradictory: one school held that the swimmer should hold still and keep quiet; the other said churn wildly and shout. During World War II thousands of seamen and downed airmen came within reach of the shark's sinister jaws. With air traffic over open water becoming heavier every day, the U.S. Air University painstakingly collected the reports of survivors, has issued a manual called Airmen Against...
...Limit. By the end of Breen's first year of competitive swimming Counsilman's counsel was paying off. Breen could churn the 440 in 4:56. Last year he was fast enough to win the Eastern Intercollegiate and A.A.U. 1,500-meter championship. In June Coach Counsilman took off on a leave from Cortland to be physical fitness director of Philadelphia's Broadwood Health Institute, but he kept control of Breen's training by telephone and letter, nursed and egged him on to this year's Eastern Intercollegiate 1,500-meter title. Then he went...
...Dutch. Hampton stunned. "What did I do? Arrested for jazzing," he moans. "Call the ambassador!" Tears off shirt. Washes. Puts on green wool shirt. Doesn't want catch cold. After 45 minutes go by, has cooled off. Police let him out. Band and Hampton drop into bus, churn off to Schiphol Airport and fly off. Real gone...
...alone would count for nothing. Only the official observer on each boat would carry a watch; only he would be able to record just how close his skipper was keeping to his estimates. If all went well, if navigational skill was equal to predicted-log equations, every boat would churn past the finish line at Block Island at exactly 7 p.m. The time-measured margin of error (including the error at each control point) would determine the winner...
...achieves some entertaining contrasts between plain and fancy living, country and city ways. When the Amish aren't donning their buttonless clothes, "shunning" a miscreant or putting up a barn, the city gal is being ogled by six frighteningly silent Amish youths, or is trying to pump water, churn butter, cook rice and grind sausage all at once-which makes the gayest five minutes in the show...