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...only dangerous, as expected, but downright homicidal to U.S. hopes. The U.S. woman most dramatically in the swim was the Walter Reed Swim Club's Shelley Mann, who led a U.S. sweep of the 100-meter "butterfly. U.S. men, expected to score heavily, were swamped in the foam of their hustling hosts. Murray Rose, a 17-year-old Aussie who tries a seaweed diet and even hypnotism to help him along, sliced through the water as if a shark were snapping at his toes, set a new Olympic record in the 400-meter freestyle, helped his teammates...
...daylight. At 8:04 a.m. Ogg announced: ten minutes. Then, one minute. The passengers braced. Ogg carefully aimed the big Boeing Stratocruiser for a strip of white fire-fighting foam that Pontchartrain had laid to aid the pilot's depth perception. He kissed the plane onto the hard waves, touching gently at first. Then it bounced hard, whipped around violently as an engine tore loose, snapped in two. Quickly the crew discharged and inflated the life rafts. The passengers waded cautiously through the cabin rubble, hopped into the rafts. Within ten minutes after the Stratocruiser struck water Pontchar train...
...Foam Rubber. On the festive opening night (Danish national anthem, speeches, cheers) the featured work was La Sylphide, choreographed by famed August Bournonville in 1836 and passed down virtually unchanged from lip to toe. It begins with a round of mimed action during which some observers usually expect the dancers to burst into recitative and aria at any moment. The white-clad sylph (Margrethe Schanne), her supernatural character implicit in the tiny wings at her waist, falls in love with the Scotch farm boy (Henning Kronstam); but when the family arrives, she dashes over to the fireplace and literally whisks...
...There are magic veils, palm reading and plots until the sylph's little wings drop off and, faltering as if blind, she dies. When, amid all this fabulizing, they get a chance to dance, the Danes are light on their toes-as if the stage were covered with foam rubber-and their movements are graceful rather than virtuoso. Everything they do onstage helps the drama, and so there are no star dancers, nor is there much pause for applause. Nevertheless there were gasps of approval at the powerful male leaps...
...their own behalf while still in uniform. Though they have never really joined organized labor-four separate unions have flopped, and they have never managed a successful strike-each team has its player representative. If trivial requests have failed (one Philadelphia muscleman thought dugout benches needed foam-rubber cushions), earnest efforts to improve conditions have built the pension system and boosted minimum salaries...