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...qualify in the spring of 1976 for the first Short Course nationals at Long Beach's Belmont Plaza. The swimming world had only six months to prepare itself after the diminutive ninth-grader's first performance in a major competition at the end of the following summer, Vassallo swam to his first national championship at Philadelphia's Kelly Pool...
...overly domineering and pushy coach. Caulkins tacitly agrees, saying "Coach Bergen did have a lot of control over our lives in and out of the pool, but I was at the age where it didn't bother me too much. Besides, it all paid off because everyone swam fast under...
Communists like their leaders to be larger than life and to have accomplishments to match. For example, China's Chairman Mao Tse-tung made a big splash in 1966, when at age 72 he reportedly swam nine miles down the Yangtze River. Then Rumania's Party Boss Nicolae Ceauşescu made hunting history in 1978 by bagging the largest bear ever shot in Europe. Now it appears that Fidel Castro too can boast of a fancy feat. During the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, he is said to have shot down singlehanded an American U-2 plane...
Versatile yardling Debbie Zimic also swam well Saturday night, moving from eighth place to fifth in the finals of the 100-yd. individual medley with a seasonbest clocking...
Yardling Floyd swam a solid--if not particularly fast--time of 1:57.07 in the 200-yd. freestyle to take 12th place honors...