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...couldn't have asked the kids to do any better," Coach Stephanie Walsh said after it was over. "They swam out of their league. It was the 1650 swimmers that set it off Saturday night...

Author: By Daniel Gil, | Title: Yale Wins Women's Ivy Swim; Crimson Fades to Fourth Place | 2/14/1978 | See Source »

This was a true heartbreaker. Fayer swam the fastest qualifying time, and indeed the fastest time of the day (0:25.79), but in the final, Dartmouth's Nancy Gildan came up with an excellent turn and won it by, well, a fingernail...

Author: By Daniel Gil, | Title: Yale Wins Women's Ivy Swim; Crimson Fades to Fourth Place | 2/14/1978 | See Source »

...rate it as a toss up now," Berizzi said. "Sure our times were better than theirs early in the season; we had a lot more to prove than them. We all knew their times would come down eventually, and they did when they swam well in January...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Tiger Troops Here for Weekend Wars | 2/4/1978 | See Source »

...space around the North Truro base anymore, at least not without the knowledge that they may be fried like a leg of chicken, or poisoned by potentially fatal doses of microwave radiation. But for a few years, the happy-go-lucky vacationers and beach-combers around North Truro swam, flew, and enjoyed their summers unaware of the fact that intense beams of microwave radiation were travelling through their bodies, much the same way more concentrated microwave frequencies are projected through the food inside brand new microwave ovens...much the same way every American gets zapped with varying amounts of microwaves...

Author: By David Dahlquist, | Title: The Microwave War | 2/2/1978 | See Source »

...rain beat against the roof of the veranda. "Ego gratification and upward mobility, America's gifts to Micronesia, have changed the Pacific of Maugham and Robert Louis Stevenson," says DeVoss. "A $500,000 bridge is planned to link two outer Samoan islands I once swam between four years ago. Still, no change can dull the macaroon scent of drying copra or the taste of raw tuna...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jan. 16, 1978 | 1/16/1978 | See Source »

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