Word: diver
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Diver Dave Silver was the top performer for Harvard. winning both his events for ten of his team's 36 points. He had scores of 230.75 and 281.05. The Crimson earned four more of its points from a second and third by diver Tom Wallace...
...others instrumental in the Radcliffe triumph were Sandy Wallace and Jeannie Sinnott. Wallace volunteered to be her team's diver and, despite having no experience, finished third. She earned two fourths and a sixth in other events. Sinnott, besides swimming in the freestyle relay, had a third, fifth, and sixth in three individual races...
...Diver's Defeat...
...melted together. I've seen a lot of bodies, but this got me. I started to lose my cool." He paused, then added: "The war is going to go on and on-five or ten more years -no matter what anybody writes. I've been like a diver crawling around the floor of the ocean too long. I've got to come to the surface and decompress...
Underwater wear has not always looked so good. Time was when the only safe way an amateur diver could tolerate cold deep-sea temperatures was in the same sort of black rubber "dry suit" (socalled because it kept water out) worn by U.S. Navy frogmen during World War II. Effective but cumbersome, the old suit required courses in calisthenics to put it on: one version had to be squirmed into through the neck hole, another through a single narrow slit in the front. Getting dressed too quickly resulted in overheating and perspiration. Appropriately enough, it was the company owned...