Word: diver
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Middle distance man Francisco Canales, breaststroker Ivor Gordon and diver Mike Toal lead one of the strongest freshmen contingents in years...
...Gordon is a national record holder in the breaststroke in South Africa. "Gordon has been very successful on a minimum training program," coach Ray Essick said yesterday. "We're going to see if he can handle a stepped-up program this winter. And Toal is as good a freshman diver as I've seen...
Freshman Duncan Pyle is expected to complement fellow backstroker Tom Wolfe much as Toal has worked with improved veteran diver Roger Johanigman who has taken over as the top diver in English's absence...
Canada's Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, who is a skier, scuba diver and judo expert, has added a new item to his list of athletic achievements. While attending a Liberal Party picnic in Vancouver, the P.M. spotted a trampoline, hopped aboard and executed a series of jumps that seemed practiced, if not exactly perfect. One knowledgeable spectator, Canadian Trampolinist Bob Scott, observed that Trudeau has "a lot of air sense-knowing where you are when you're upside down." That evaluation will doubtless be exploited by Trudeau's political opponents when Parliament reconvenes later this month...
...systematically looted shops and homes in Kyrenia, a former Greek Cypriot enclave and the most important town Cypriot Turks have occupied since troubles began on the island. Residents of Kyrenia fled to refugee centers in tourist hotels that were protected by U.N. soldiers. Said Andreas Karioulou, 52, a noted diver whose discoveries off the island include a 2,200-year-old Greek galley: "It is hard to see your property go up in ashes. But I was born here, and I have no intention of leaving. The Turks should not keep us under guard forever...