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...warmup session last week, the East Germans laughed, smiled and swam their laps to the sounds of pop music that their coaches had insisted be piped into the pool. They looked for all the world like candidates for a California swim club-but their training is a lot tougher. With typical Marxist determination, East Germany has established a policy of scientific selection for finding swimmers; it is based partly on early assessment of a child's cardiovascular capacity and body type. Great emphasis is put on weight lifting to build strength. The average East German woman swimmer...
...hanged, apparently because the British feared reprisals. He is now on a British frigate sailing along the American coast ?a possible exchange for some captured English officer. Word of Allen's fate came from a fellow prisoner who jumped overboard from a ship in the convoy and swam to the North Carolina shore. He also reported that when the convoy stopped at Cork in February, Allen was greeted ecstatically by sympathetic Irishmen, who showered on Allen such luxuries as wool cloth for suits, a couple of beaver hats, several turkeys, sugar loaves and pickled beef...
Downey also swam in the 100 IM in 1:03.8 and the 50 backstroke in 29.4. Barbara Ann Marshall of UNC won the 200 backstroke in a stunning 2:04.0, while Downey finished a full three seconds behind her own season best time...
Peter Tetlow swam the best time of his life in the heats of the 200 butterfly (1:54.3), but could not match it in the finals on Saturday night (1:55.6) and ended up eighth in the race. Cornell's Bob Meade, who placed a close second to the Crimson's George Keim in the 100 fly on Friday...
...free, Malcolm Cooper took eighth place for Harvard. Chuck Felice, who anchored the winning Fordham 400 free relay squad, took the race in a blazing 46.04. The Crimson free relay team (Tim Neville, Keim, Wes Raffel, and Cooper) swam to a sixth place finish...