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DIED. Johnny Weissmuller, 79, record-setting swimmer (five Olympic gold medals) turned cinematic Tarzan (twelve movies); in Acapulco, Mexico. "They gave me a G-string," he claimed of his MGM bosses, "and said, 'Can you climb a tree?'" Weissmuller, the archetypal Hollywood hunk, led an extravagantly untidy personal life highlighted by five failed marriages and a portfolio of foolish business ventures...
...freshman swimmer has been taken off a respirator, and now can talk. Doctors have found most of her vital signs normal, and have placed her on the "serious" list, Kelly Anthony, spokesman of the Yale-affiliated St. Raphael's Hospital, said yesterday...
...Cimino's parents apparently told the swim team coach that their daughter had an 80 percent chance of pulling through with no serious damage. Swimmer Tracy Black '86 said that Coach Vicki Hays told the team Sunday that Cimino would reportedly be in intensive care for 10 to 12 days...
...haven't had as many great teams in one year before," says Eric Cutler '40, who has been associated with Harvard sports since his days in Cambridge as an All-American swimmer, the past 18 in the capacity of assistant athletic director...
...over it now and it looks like nothing really, it has retreated from its medieval boundaries, it has shrunk and dwindled, it has huddled itself together, has drawn back from the vaunt of its greatness and the largeness of its history, it is like a swimmer who has struggled barely alive out of a raging torrent and does not enter the water again. No, I think as I look down on this place that is so small, so diminished, so unspecial, this is not Antioch: Antioch was days and nights of vivid action, Antioch was a paradigm of history...