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...mainland. High-altitude balloons intermittently shower propaganda leaflets on the "enemy," with slogans like "Chiang Kai-shek is concerned about you." The hope is that the leaflets and the broadcasts will inspire mass defections. In fact, the last defector from the mainland to reach Quemoy was a fisherman who swam ashore in November...
...Potomac. Now, of course, the profile is lower still. Occasionally, they eat out with the Goldwaters, who live across the street. One recent Saturday, another neighbor, Ervin Committee Member Lowell Weicker, dropped in for beer and pretzels. Before the worst of Watergate, the Deans played tennis and golf, swam and sailed their 18-ft. boat. Nattily dressed in broad-lapel suits and wide ties, Dean used to drive to work a purple Porsche 911 as highly polished as his shoes. Now he and Mo stay home. Although hidden from public view by drawn shades, he still looks tanned...
This past season Alabama swam in 12 dual meets and four relay competitions, facing during the dual meet season such powers as Indiana, Tennessee, and Florida. The possibility of more topflight competition for the Tide is strictly up to Gambril...
...conventional ecstasy at the first sight of the Sphinx and its "terrifying stare," but as for the temples, they "bore me profoundly." The living panorama of the voyage, however, made all his senses tingle with excitement. He responded to everything strange and savage and grotesque. Naked Coptic monks swam out to the young Frenchman's boat to beg for baksheesh and swam back with coins between their teeth. Stray cows poked their noses into ruins that Du Camp was conscientiously measuring. It was fun to discuss theology with prelates of obscure religions, or the technique of the bastinado with...
...Easterns. Yntema's excellent 1:50.806 in the 200-yd. butterfly was, however, the climax of a long and arduous training program. Although he had been pointing towards the nationals all season long, Yntema's performances throughout the winter were consistently outstanding. Out of the ten times he swam the event (including two times in both the Easterns and the NCAA's) Yntema set new records a phenomenal nine times, as he chopped a whopping six full secodds off the old Harvard record...