Word: diving
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Yale is simply too much. The Bull-dogs have fantastic depth and talent in every event but the dive. In addition, they have several stars, notably Olympians Don Schollander and Bill Mettler, who are almost certain winners in any event they choose to swim. True, the Blue lost at West Point 48-47, but that was before Schollander and Mettler became eligible for varsity competition...
Break in the Chain. Japanese strategy was to 1) destroy the rest of the Pacific fleet that had miraculously been on patrol when the dive bombers struck Pearl Harbor, and 2) build such strong defenses on its newly won island bases that no new U.S. force, no matter how strong, could possibly break through to disturb the inner empire. The island of Midway, 1.136 miles northwest of Pearl Harbor, was to be the final link in this defense chain. At the end of May 1942, some 200 ships, the bulk of the Imperial Navy, converged for an invasion of Midway...
Harvard lost only two of the remaining eight events, the dive and the 500-yard freestyle...
Authentic Dialect. Just 50 miles from Tat Phnom last week, a squad of Thai cops, returning from patrol with two Communist prisoners, was ambushed on an ox trail and forced to dive for cover while the prisoners were permanently silenced by their comrades' bullets. Red terrorists also hit nearby Ubon, where U.S. fighter-bombers operating from that provincial capital mount almost daily strikes against North Viet Nam. In the past six months, Communist assassins have killed some 40 village headmen, teachers and "police informers" in the six Northeast provinces. With steadily growing intensity, armed bands of guerrillas shoot...
Bill Green will also pick up a sure five points for the men from Old Nassau in the dive, though Pete Alter and John Friedman should grab second and third for Harvard...