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...handles 220,000. It is the place where Lou Gehrig went when other doctors had given up. (Mayo's confirmed the hopeless diagnosis.) It is the place where Lyndon Baines Johnson had one kidney stone removed by manipulation and another by surgery. It is the place to which Clara Bow, the "It" girl of the '20s, went when she was failing in the '40s, and to which Prince Feisal, now Premier of Saudi Arabia, went for an ulcer checkup...
...Next he stepped up for the 200-meter freestyle -down went the record by nearly 1 sec., to 1 min. 57.6 sec. "I always think of the 200 as my property," said Schollander, then for encores added the 100-meter title and anchored both winning freestyle relays for Santa Clara...
...went on that way for the better part of four days. Schollander's Santa Clara Teammate Dick Roth, 16, knocked almost 2 sec. off the 400-meter individual medley (butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, freestyle) in 4 min. 48.6 sec., picked up an American record in the 200-meter medley. Santa Clara's girls? Freckle-faced Claudia Kolb, 14, merely won two medals in the 100-meter and 200-meter breaststroke. Then there was Donna de Varona, already an Olympic veteran at 17, who won both individual medleys, besides helping all three winning relays for Santa Clara...
Whole Flotilla. On behind the Santa Clara swimmers came a whole flotilla of young water bugs. City of Commerce, Calif.'s Sharon Stouder, 15, matched Schollander's triple by winning the 100-meter freestyle and the 100-meter butterfly, then lowered the world 200-meter butterfly record by almost 3 sec. to 2 min. 26.4 sec. Arizona's Marilyn Ramenofsky, 17, thrashed through the 400-meter freestyle in 4 min. 41.7 sec., breaking Chris von Saltza's listed world record...
Next stop for the swimmers is the Olympic trials in Queens, N.Y., later this month. After last week's A.A.U. spectacular, some coaches might be expected to taper off for fear of overtraining. Not Santa Clara's George Haines. "We didn't even attempt to reach our peak," he said. "Our boys and girls will be better for the Olympic trials, and better still for the Olympic games." So back to work it was for his young charges, swatting up and down the pool, practicing twice...