Word: diversion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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CRIMSON SPLASHES: Sentiments varied over the controversial new policy of running swimming and diving events concurrently. Swimming buffs like it "cause you don't have to sit through the diving," while afficionados feel that "divers don't get the attention they deserve." It is one thing to ask the divers...
Only Clark's Betty Grazulis prevented a Harvard sweep, as she took both the 100-and 200-meter backstrokes. But with just eight swimmers and two divers facing Harvard's 22 swimmers and two divers, the Worcester women could not keep up.
John Walker's divers often get lost in the publicity shuffle but have been instrumental in Harvard's building of an aquatic empire. Jeff Mule, whom Walker touts as "the top prospect in the Ivys," will join Steve Schramm (second on one-meter and fifth on the high board).
Two thousand, eight hundred feet above the trailer a single engine plane stalls, glides and drops two black dots. They grow. Their parachutes don't open but Maclaughlin ignores the two plummeting people. He looks steely-eyed at his charges, each of us with our heads tossed back, eyes wide...
You've got to hand it to Lady Sarah Spencer-Churchill. Well, actually you don't, if you've got a DEMS, or Diver Equivalent Manipulator System, developed for underwater work by General Electric. DEMS makes its movie debut in ''Raise the Titanic!''...