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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Winning performances from sophomore diver Bill Murphy and freestyler Bill Shrout couldn't match Yale's aquatic powerhouse, as Harvard lost its final dual meet of the season Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Elis Overwhelm Swimming Team By 65-30 Score | 3/6/1967 | See Source »

...best work. Tony Smith's huge constructions have a presence (even if they are ordered by phone) that a pile of concrete blocks by Carl Andre have not. Something called Liaison, by John Bennett, has some strange charm, looming like a cross between an oversized scuba diver and a mechanical caricature of an elephant (though it's hard to see in what corner of the living room it would fit). But there is no such justification for those Euclid stairs; even as a literary joke, they are not worth the floor space they occupy, and someone ought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: WHAT IS ART TODAY? | 1/27/1967 | See Source »

Among the more spectacular Indian Sophs are freestyler Carl Robinson, who barely missed snapping the Williams pool record at 100 yards, backstroker Al Petersen and diver Marc Labovitz...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Swimmers Host Indians In Big Meet Tomorrow | 1/13/1967 | See Source »

Knox, Ward's, Mitchell's -- these are the easy ones. There are harder ones--like McFail's. Just to get into McFail's you have to slide down a rope through a 45-foot pit, wearing a diver's wet suit. Then, you squeeze down a slim 55-foot vertical fissure, with your back pressed hard against one wall, your feet against the other, in turn lowering each a little...

Author: By George R. Merriam, | Title: Where Have The Explorers Gone? Today's Adventurer Craves A Cave | 11/3/1966 | See Source »

...even going under water to find new sales. Evinrude recently introduced the $279 Aquanaut, a gasoline engine that floats in its own air-filled life ring, pumps compressed, filtered air through two 25-ft. hoses down to masks worn by aquanauts below. Not only does it free the serious diver from cumbersome, expensive scuba tanks but, plopped over the side of a boat, it lets the yachtsman get to the bottom of any problem he might have-even if it's only barnacles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recreation: Off-Season Soundings | 1/21/1966 | See Source »

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