Word: poolings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Topeka's big outdoor municipal pool, the starter's gun barked for the 100-meter freestyle in the National A.A.U.'s Senior Women's swimming championship. Six of the U.S.'s best women swimmers soared off the pool's edge in flat trajectory and smacked into the water. By the time they turned at the far end of the 50-meter pool, a tall, 14-year-old blonde held the lead, increased it with each powerful stroke, finished well out in front. Susan Christine ("call me Chris") von Saltza had done...
Chris first turned out for competitive swimming three years ago. George Haines, coach of the high-rated Santa Clara Swim Club, gave her a cursory look and ordered some laps in the pool. Haines checked back later, found Chris had done 115 laps, went to work at making her a champion. Haines was satisfied with her powerful kick, but worked long hours to strengthen her arm and shoulder muscles, taught her a high recovery stroke for greater power. In her basement at home, Chris wrestled doggedly with pulleys and weights...
...Haines promptly embarked on a four-year program aimed at the 1960 Olympics in Rome, where Chris may get a crack at Australian Stars Lorraine Crapp, Dawn Fraser and lisa Konrads. Beginning this fall, Chris will get up every weekday at 5:30 a.m., get to the pool by 7 for a go-minute workout, return for two more hours after school. Evenings, she will concentrate on homework to maintain her straight-A average at Los Gatos High School in the hope of entering Stanford...
...hearteningly smaller total of cases, a higher proportion are paralytic: 58% as against 46%. Nobody knows the reason for this. Some 70 million Americans have now been vaccinated (50 million with three shots); since some do not respond to the vaccine and develop no immunity, there is a widening pool of vaccinated subjects who may still get paralytic polio. But why do these people not respond? Vaccinventor Jonas E. Salk has spent most of the summer studying non-responders. Last week all he would say was: "The essential point is that the proportion of individuals who do not respond...
Astutely aware that the pleasant sinkholes where a man misspends his youth glow with unearthly allure as the green years recede, the proprietors of Leavitt & Peirce, a Cambridge (Mass.) tobacco hall and onetime pool hall, invited 31 old Harvard graduates to psalm their shop's 75th anniversary. Done up in a handsome volume that is illustrated by snapshots of mustached crewmen, football mastodons of the 1880s, and a sinful tintype of a 19th century Cambridge sybarite puffing a hookah, the sentimental replies set up a blue haze of reminiscence...