Word: pools
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard's greatest strength in the championships, managed only a seventh-place tie with Army. Captain Ron Winfield made a strong bid to capture a qualifying spot for the individual championships, but lost in a play-off to swordsmen from N.Y.U. and Princeton. His third-place tie in his pool, though, was the best Harvard performance of the weekend...
Nixon goes to lunch in the family quarters at 12:30, takes a 20-minute postprandial nap and returns to the West Wing around 3 o'clock. At about 6, he goes to the White House swimming pool, dons trunks and splashes through four or five laps, as recommended by his doctor. Back at the family quarters an hour later, he often meets a small group for cocktails. Last week the Republican congressional leaders came by for shoptalk, and Barry Goldwater dropped in for a drink. Nixon normally sticks to Dubonnet on the rocks...
Already, modern basic oxygen furnaces produce about 73% of Japan's steel, compared with around 20% in the U.S. and 10% in Europe. The combine will create a large pool of capital resources for investment in still more up-to-date equipment. It will also be a formidable competitor in international markets. Last year Japan produced 74 million tons of crude steel-exceeded only by the U.S.'s 131 million tons and Russia's 118 million-and one-fifth of the output was exported...
...East House medley relay team set a pool mark in a time of 45.4 seconds. The previous record was 46.0. Another record established during the meet came in the breaststroke relay as the North House team was 0.6 seconds under the previous standard...
Otherwise, the story was all Yale. Olympian John Nelson, who swims better than Brian Dowling plays football, set two pool records by earning victories in the freestyles at 500 and 1000 yards...