Word: lifeguards
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This month millions of American kids flee the tyranny of the classroom bell for lifeguard stands, grandparents' homes and sleepaway camps. But summer vacation hasn't always been a birthright of U.S. schoolchildren. In the decades before the Civil War, schools operated on one of two calendars, neither of which included a summer hiatus. Rural schooling was divided into summer and winter terms, leaving kids free to pitch in with the spring planting and fall harvest seasons. Urban students, meanwhile, regularly endured as many as 48 weeks of study a year, with one break per quarter. (Since education...
When Martin's family finally appeared at the press conference on Sunday, reporters pocketed BlackBerrys and iPhones and stood at attention with voice recorders. The family and some friends, 15 in all, filed out one by one from behind the city's lifeguard headquarters. Many were carrying solitary sunflowers, and most of the Martin women wept quietly. The men were stoic. Dave Martin's son Jeff, 41, stepped forward to speak. He gave some prepared remarks about how the family appreciated the outpouring of grief but yearned for privacy. Afterward, a reporter asked whether the family would stop swimming...
...Today, a huge blue banner flies over the sprawling beach, reading "FREE FOR ALL." The grounds, though, are filthy, and the capital's beachgoers have gone missing. "Who wants an empty, unkept beach, with no service, no lifeguard and two sun-baked policemen sipping on iced coffee?" says Marios Kostaras, a local beachgoer. "A noble cause means nothing if there's no management plan to follow...
...Olivier, but in the 1950s Gordon Scott, a Las Vegas lifeguard turned actor, re-created a literate Tarzan and won acclaim for sporting the loincloth in one of the series' best films, 1959's sweeping and suspenseful Tarzan's Greatest Adventure. Scott, who faded into obscurity in the '60s, was aware that his appeal lay in his beefy pecs. "Tarzan was ideal for me," he said, "because I didn't have too much dialogue...
Picked to threaten Princeton for the division title last season, the Big Red instead sank to the bottom of the standings with a 6-14 mark in Ivy play. The same youthful core that sank a year ago now looks to swim with junior Brian Kaufman in the lifeguard role. Kaufman had nine home runs and 11 steals...