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They saw it just like the other victims from 21 consecutive dual races have seen it—a blur of Crimson, eight oars coursing through the water in one splashless motion, a distinctively yellow shell propelled forward by eight six-foot-plus men in the haze of the foggy mid-morning...
Closer to earth and water, however, there was plenty of spectacular diving competition at the Games. Since 1980, China has been sending powerful men's and women's diving teams, perhaps the best in the world, to international meets. They specialize in acrobatics and "ripped" entries -eerily splashless plunges that make a sound like ripping cloth, in which the hands and arms drill a hole in the water for the body to follow. At first the American women, traditionally the world's best, could not match these elegant entries. They learned soon enough, but the Chinese kept...
...three guests, whose only guide is a topical springboard, e.g., "American Women," "Middle Age," "Basic Fears." The show started off as a local TV program last spring. NBC and Producer Louis Cowan pulled it off the air after eleven weeks, overhauled it, then gave it a splashless launching all over again on radio. From week to week such sophisticated raconteurs as Bennett Cerf, Marc Connelly, Abe Burrows, Steve Allen and Sam Levenson join Fadiman for the kind of lively gab that has not been heard on radio since the old days of Information Please. Item: Punster Cerf's line...
...University of Texas-carrot-topped junior, David ("Skippy") Browning, 21, first-or second-place taker in every national springboard (3-meter) diving meet since 1948, a perfectionist who showed almost splashless style last week in piling up his winning 1,037.45 points...
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