Word: swim
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...local scene, or rather, in the local waters, the big news is of course the U.S. Swimming Championships--Short Course, at Blodgett Pool on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. It's worth cutting classes to see teams like the Mission Viejo Nadadores, the Florida Aquatic Swim Team (FAST), the Longhorn Aquatic Swim Team (LAST), and everybody's favorite, the Cincinnati Pepsi Marlins. The action is sure to be fast and loose...
...other Japanese firms, such as Japan Airlines and Mitsui Trust Bank, new employees eagerly submit to unusual initiations. One Tokyo retailing firm dispatched its group of newcomers for a midwinter swim on the northern island of Hokkaido to tone up their selfdiscipline. Matsushita workers, by contrast, are sent to a Zen Buddhist temple for three-day retreats. In most Japanese companies the new workers, their parents and other relatives attend a ceremony at which the president welcomes the newcomers to the firm...
...Saturday, February 9, 1980, while the Harvard band amused the standing room only crowd at Blodgett Pool and annoyed the vaunted Indiana University swim team, the Harvard squad returned unnoticed in the locker room to prepare its secret weapon...
Long before his arrival in Cambridge two Septembers ago. Countryman had already established himself as the best long-distance freestyler in Region II of the AAU which included his home pool of Foxcatcher Swim Club then located outside Philadelphia on the DuPont Estate as well as Countryman's home 90-minutes away in Newark Del. Region II has also provided Harvard with two other sophomore swimmers, Maryland's Tom Verdin and Andy Lockman...
...Last year, when record temperatures' plagued the area for weeks, many of the tourists took their pictures through the tinted windows of their air-conditioned Greyhounds. The only relief is water; hence the city hospital daily treats patients who didn't find out until they were wet that a swim in the Charles is best accompanied by a tetanus shot...