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...remaining regally dry on the sidelines -but this time 17 other local families provided more of a battle. Rainier's youngest daughter Stephanie, who is only seven, got off to a slow start, then Princess Grace, a somewhat plump 42, plunged in and gained a bit. Albert, 14, swam best of all, but he was barely able to pull the first family into second place...
...thousand Chinese youths gathered on the shores of Lake Kun Ming, plunged into the water and swam 15 abreast to the accompaniment of rhythmic whistling. They were commemorating Chairman Mao Tse-tung's swim down the Yangtze River six years ago. When Mao took his dip, according to official press reports, he "at times swam side stroke and at other times he floated and had a view of the azure sky above." Mao was reported by his hagiographers to have swum nine miles in 65 minutes-a lot better than last week's youngsters, who climbed out after...
...recent warm evening in Key West, Fla., a sandy-haired, blue-eyed teen-age boy swam ashore carrying a compass, knife and can opener. He later appeared at a highway-patrol office and told the authorities, tearfully, that he did not know...
Harvard's hard core raft-race fans were able to have their day in the sun Sunday. Shuttled and scuttled by a strong tail wind, the eight hardy entrants paddled, puffed, swam and spun their way down the Charles in this second annual Adams House classic...
...poacher has bragged that he killed 114 alligators in a single night, and he was equally adroit in eluding pursuers. After throwing the hides out of his pickup truck as a posse closed in, he dove into a Louisiana bayou, swam across the border to Texas and holed up there for six months before being captured. Another, who is now serving a long jail sentence, used to zip across the swamps in a shallow boat that could reach speeds of 85 m.p.h...