Word: pools
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With Dartmouth sprint star Helen Hemminger pacing the Green assault, Dartmouth jumped out to a 42-19 lead mid-way through the contest. Hemminger had three individual firsts and a team first with the Dartmouth medley relay squad. She also set new pool records each time she entered the water...
...loss moved the women's record to 4-2, 1-1 in the Ivies. With the team moving into the new pool today, Harvard is looking forward to swimming the new semester in a new home, where the Ivy Championships will be held from February...
Inevitably, it is the glitches that will be remembered. The fumbles in Warsaw by two interpreters who seemed unable to convert Jimmy Carter's English into accurate Polish. The live TV mike in New Delhi that enabled pool reporters to hear the President undiplomatically instructing Secretary of State Cyrus Vance to send a "cold and very blunt" note to Indian Prime Minister Morarji Desai about his nuclear policy. The dinner in the same capital dominated by a singleminded flycatcher who hovered behind Carter until -swat!-he nailed his prey and plucked it daintily from the linen. The Secret Service...
They also have a flavor of 19th century colonialism. On Kwajalein, 500 natives often perform jobs of equal status with those of the 3,000 Americans, but are forbidden access to the golf course, swimming pool, free movies and subsidized food available to the outsiders. For security reasons, only Americans can live on the island. Every night the natives must commute by boat three miles to Ebeye, a slum island where 7,000 people are segregated on just 73 acres...
Harvard was going to host the U.S. Women's International Swim Meet last week, but even the best laid plans... The new swimming pool was not finished in time, so the entire meet--replete with Harvard flags and other veritas insignia--moved down to Brown, in Providence...