Word: jims
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Venezuela's presidency. The party is the left-leaning Acción Democrática (A.D.). Its leader: scholarly, owlish Rómulo Betancourt, 50. In his dust, Betancourt left Rear Admiral Wolfgang Larrazábal, head of the revolutionary junta that ousted Dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez last January, and Rafael Caldera, candidate of the Social Christian COPEI party...
Despite the oil wells that pump some $800 million a year into Venezuela, the nation that elected Betancourt is in economic trouble. Dictator Pérez Jiménez splurged on grandiose public works schemes that ran the country $1.4 billion into short-term debt. Venezuela has paid one-third of the bills, must find a way to pay the rest. It must also make jobs for 100,000 now unemployed as well as new Venezuelans, now swelling the population of 6,000,000 at a fat 3% a year...
...varsity swam without three of its stalwarts--Captain John Hammond, Jim Stanley, and Dick Seaton, who all were too sick to swim. Additionally, Brooks used only one Crimson contender in four events, thus preventing any possible second and third place finishes in these races...
...Jim Perilman in the 100-yard butterfly, Gary Pildner in the 200-yard backstroke, and Bob Komenda in the 440-yard free-style all performed well enough to win rather easily. Komenda finished two laps ahead of one M.I.T. swimmer...
...Brooks emphasized that such changes would not be known definitely until the time of the meet. The varsity will be strong in the breast and backstrokes, with Jim Stanley and Doug McCartney forming a strong nucleus in the former event and Gary Pildner showing himself to be a very improved backstroker...