Word: swim
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard-Princeton swim meets in recent years have been dogfights. In five of the last six years, the winner has finished the season as the undefeated Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League (EISL) champion. Almost every battle has been dicided by fewer than a dozen points...
Maureen Gildea followed the initial victory with her usual easy win in the 500 free, clocking a 5:10.4. McCloskey, whose sprained ankle left her unable to swim butterfly, usually her specialty, followed in second place with...
...direction and strength of the tide during the swim are central to one of the most important questions about Chappaquiddick: Why did Kennedy wait until almost ten hours after the accident before reporting it to the police? At a January 1970 inquest, he gave a vivid account of how he had plunged into the water and then "felt an extraordinary shove ... the tide began to draw me out, and for the second time that evening I knew I was going to drown ... I remembered being swept down toward the direction of the Edgartown Light and well out into the darkness...
...narrow inner harbor and the shore, not north toward Nantucket Sound. In rebuttal, Kennedy Brother-in-Law Stephen Smith produced oceanographic studies, commissioned by the Senator, showing that the tide had been running north until 1:36 a.m., a few minutes after Kennedy said he began the swim...
Kennedy is unlikely to set to rest doubts about his story. Both the Digest and Star pointed out that his account of nearly drowning during the swim conflicted with the testimony of Gargan and Markham at the January 1970 inquest. They said that they had watched the start of the Senator's swim, observed no struggle, concluded that he could reach Edgartown with no trouble and returned to the cottage. Kennedy told reporters last week that he might not have shown any signs of difficulty that were visible to Gargan and Markham, but that he nonetheless had battled against...