Word: diversity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some 7,000 foreigners, mostly Americans and French, have moved to the ancient 8th Century port city of Stavanger since it became the center of Norway's oil industry. Housing is in short supply, and high-rise apartment buildings are going up to accommodate a metropolitan population growing at...
The swimming pool is also poor, so bad that two years ago the Penn divers refused to compete because they considered the pool too shallow for safety.
Altogether, divers and dredgers retrieved 8,524 pieces of unexploded ordnance, 127 pontoon-bridge sections, 16 trucks, eight tanks, 104 small boats and barges, ten large sunken wrecks and 15 airplanes, not to mention oil drums, anchors, beer cans and one old toilet. Some 686,000 mines and other explosives...
Essick and the divers pulled into Independence Tuesday, joining the swimmers yesterday for what Essick predicted would be "a phenomenal swim meet...one of the best in the world."
Today through Saturday the Harvard swimmers and divers will be splashing it out against the best talent in the country, and while Essick refused last night to make any predictions. Harvard is looking to Hess Yntema and Bob Fullerton to bring home the bacon.