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...Southern Ocean Racing Conference-championship. "If you do not take hances," Vidana quipped, "you might as well stay home and fix the garden." ¶When The Netherlands pulled its team out of last fall's Olympic Games because of international tensions, 16-year-old Ti-neke Lageberg lost a big chance to show what she could do. Last week, wildly windmilling through the water, she clipped a whopping 11.4 seconds off the official world's record for the women's 220-yd butterfly, firmly established herself as one of history's greatest swimmers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Apr. 1, 1957 | 4/1/1957 | See Source »

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