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Under Counsilman's coaching, Indiana has not lost a two-team meet since 1959. Long an also-swam in Big Ten competition, Indiana demonstrated its new superiority in 1960 by trouncing Michigan, the perennial national champion, and snapping a Wolverine string of 33 straight dual-meet victories. In celebration, Indiana swimmers dumped Counsilman, clothes and all, into the pool. That year four of Counsilman's swimmers made the 17-man U.S. Olympic team, won three gold medals, one silver, one bronze. Members of the present Indiana squad hold world records for the medley relay, individual medley (Ted Stickels...
...Dorchester man drowned Sunday night when the motorboat in which he was riding capsized in front of Weld Boat House on the Charles River. His two companions swam safely to shore. MDC patrol boats dragged the river for two hours before finally recovering his body at 12:40 a.m. while a small group of summer school gathered on the banks to watch the morbid proceedings...
...broken by a whiplashing cable. Suddenly the chopper tilted and crashed into the water. Aboard the barge, preparing to inspect the pipe 217 ft. down on the ocean floor, Jon Lindbergh, 31, deep-sea-diver son of Air Hero Charles Lindbergh, stripped off his gear, dived in and swam 100 yds. to the crash. Working under water, Lindbergh swiftly cut the injured man free from the wreckage. But the odds were against him. By the time a skiff got the man back to the barge, he was dead. Said Lindbergh: "A man doesn't have much time...
...indoor life, they put on their skindiving apparatus and step through the "front door": a hole in the floor. Once outside, they can range freely, gathering tasty seafood to be cooked in the dream kitchens, never going near the surface. Every day during the month-long test, a doctor swam down from the mother ship Calypso, which hovered overhead, and checked the villagers' health. Cousteau himself stayed topside on the Calypso most of the time. At the end of the month, he said, all of the men came up in mint condition...
Died. General Bernard Cyril ("Tiny") Freyberg, 74, New Zealand's hero of two world wars, proud possessor of nine battle wounds and many more decorations (including the Victoria Cross), a bluff, towering New Zealander who swam the Gulf of Saros o Gallipoli in 1915, dragging a raft of lares in a diversionary tactic against the Turks, in World War II led Imperial troops in Libya, bloody Crete and Italy, where he once squelched a U.S. genral's complaint that New Zealanders never saluted with the crack, "Try waving at them and they'll wave back," returned home...