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...Hungarian team, which gained asylum after the end of the 1956 Olympics, swam last night as part of a nation-wide fund raising tour. The water polo team, which defeated Russia in a highly controversial game in the 1956 Olympics, split into two squads and staged first a mock game, then a "winter rugby match," involving heads and feet instead of hands. match," involving heads and feet instead of hands...
...nearly one-half a body-length behind, and finished nearly ten yeards ahead of his Army rival. Unofficially, he was clocked in :49.9 for the 100 yards, .4 second faster than his own record which he had tied previously in the meet. Jon Lind, Pete Macky, and Dick Seaton swam the other three legs...
...yard freestyle, Dyer swam the distance in 22.4, eclipsing the old pool record set by Yale's Sandy Gideonse by .2 second...
...Sympathy. Near Ellensburg, Wash., after Bob Lillie careened his car down a near-vertical 150-ft. embankment, struggled free from the wreck, swam the swollen, debris-choked Yakima River to safety on an island, shivered there for seven hours, he was hauled off by cops, booked for reckless driving...
More than a century has passed since Byron swam from the Lido to Venice and through the Grand Canal (four miles), and nearly two since Napoleon pronounced the pigeon-swept square of St. Mark's "the best drawing-room in Europe." But the destiny of Venice remains constant, to be "the observed of all observers." The latest to succumb to the spell of the floating city is Critic and Novelist Mary McCarthy (TIME, Nov. 14, 1955), who has fashioned the spectacle of Venice into a handsome and intelligent mosaic of art, history and personal impressions. Complete with 46 elegant...