Word: poolings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second place in the preliminaries and finished fifth in the finals of the 50 yard free-style. His time in each race was 22.5 seconds. But on the last lap of the finals he locked and overextended his arm, and badly sprained it, hitting the side of the pool. This put him out of the rest of the championships...
Pupil Derk Kliphuis, 40, a chauffeur for 22 years, put on his swimming trunks and waded into an Amsterdam pool for his lessons in an aluminum mock-up car. "I was frightened when we drove into the water," he said afterward. "The teacher told me to press my head against the roof of the car and look for the bubble of air. 'Don't struggle to open a door,' my teacher said. 'If you do that, you have a fair chance of dying. Press your head against the roof and wait...
...film Buck Privates. Through 1951, they were almost always among the top ten moneymakers in Hollywood, pulling down as much as half a million a year. Beneath Costello's clowning there was often hidden suffering-he had rheumatic fever, his infant son drowned in a swimming pool-but the farce and slapstick went on uninterrupted until 1957, when Costello ended the partnership and tried unsuccessfully to become a more serious actor. Last week, at the moment when retired Bud Abbott received word that Lou Costello had died, he was watching himself on a TV rerun, telling his little friend...
...exhibition hall, glassed in and covered with an accordion-pleated aluminum roof. Between the two buildings, the U.S. plastics industry will construct an all-plastic pavilion made of 70 interlocked plastic sections shaped like hexagonal umbrellas. Separate from both will be a display of 21 U.S. auto models, a pool for U.S.-made boats, and a Circarama similar to the 360° movie screen that proved a hit at the Brussels World's Fair...
...Taft of Navy won the 100 yard breaststroke in 1:04.9, setting new national Collegiate, Yale pool, and meet records. Jim Stanley, who also broke the previous record for this event, just touched out Joe Koletsky of Yale to take second place...