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Shortly before dawn, the seven young activists slipped from their blacked-out launch and swam the half-mile to shore, pushing rubber dinghies laden with supplies. Tall, muscular and bronzed, they looked like beachcombers, except for wrist, ankle and head bands plaited from the leaves of ti plants, which are supposed to bring good luck. They also marked the wearers as members of Protect Kahoolawe Ghana (Hawaiian for "family"), the most militant of the native islanders' protest groups...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN SCENE: Return of the Natives to Kahoolawe | 8/8/1977 | See Source »

BULLETIN: Actress Farrah Fawcett-Majors was kidnaped today by a large white bull as she prepared to jog nude around the Central Park Reservoir to popularize physical fitness. Amid a crackle of thunderbolts, the bull leaped an 8-ft. chain-link fence with Fawcett-Majors on its back, and swam off with her in the direction of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Witnesses said that the animal bellowed several times in what seemed to be Greek. Park authorities were investigating the disappearance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Ready, Set ...Sweat! | 6/6/1977 | See Source »

...knows what will happen in the future? One school can't win forever, a fact Walker learned when he swam at Indiana, which dominated college swimming in the Mark Spitz era just as USC has done in recent years...

Author: By Sandy Cardin, | Title: Crimson Squads Out of the Running in NCAA's | 3/28/1977 | See Source »

...Thursday, the Crimson swam Malcolm Cooper in the 50 yard free-style, Kevin O'Connell, the only Harvard swimmer who made this tournament last year in the 200-yard individual medley and the seventh-ranked medley-relay team of Tom Wolf, Ted Fullerton, George Keim and Cooper...

Author: By Sandy Cardin, | Title: Crimson Swimmers Still Floating in Ohio; NCAA Championships Underway This Weekend | 3/25/1977 | See Source »

During the school year Fayer lived in Pennsylvania, attending the Baldwin School in Bryn Mawr. But during vacations and summers, she returned to Puerto Rico to do her heavy training under the club coach's direction. She swam a total of 13,000-14,000 yards in those "two-a-day" training sessions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Getting an Early Jump on the Spring Vacation... ...By Managing in Russia... ...Or by Swimming in Rome | 3/22/1977 | See Source »

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