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...Stanley, an exceptionally good breaststroke, Doug McCartney, the second man in the 200-yard conventional breaststroke, Dick Seaton and Konrad Ulbrich in the 220 freestyle, and Frank Gorman, an NCAA diver, should have little trouble placing well against the supposedly weaker Pennsylvania squad...
Like air show spectators wondering apprehensively when a plummeting sky diver will trigger his parachute, Wall Street's experts were still waiting for the stock market to level out. But last week was not the week. After starting off with a strong rally, the greatest bull market of all time weakened and fell in the last three days to end the week at 433.83 on the Dow-Jones industrial average, the lowest point in 2½ years. All told, 263 stocks, among them such blue chips as Du Pont, General Motors and Alcoa, reached new lows for the year...
Unscheduled Chores. Last March he learned that being the only proficient diver in the entire country let him in for chores the State Department had never visualized. He was called out to the Rio Quaccerique hole when a twelve-year-old boy* lost his grip on his inner tube and disappeared under the swirling currents. After an hour's search he found the body lodged between some underwater rocks...
...technique that tamed sport parachuting, according to Istel, is sky diving, in which the jumper controls his body as he hurtles toward earth before pulling his ripcord. The skillful sky diver leaves the plane spread-eagled, looking somewhat like a highboard swan diver, his body horizontal. Despite falling speeds up to 120 m.p.h.. the body is remarkably stable in this position. Properly executed, a sky dive is spinproof (accidental spins can whirl or tumble the body up to three times a second, black out the jumper) and keeps the diver on his belly, so his backpack chute can open...
...Pool was the center of attention for the sons and daughters of '32 who were on exhibition for most of the afternoon, in and around the pool. A few members of the varsity swimming team were on hand to do any lifesaving that needed to be done, and diver Frank Gorman drew much applause from the assembled multitudes for several of his maneuvers off the low board...