Word: swimmers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...former Olympic silver medalist for Australia, Hayes must be rated the best swimmer in the University. This year he easily smashed the University record in the 200-yard butterfly and, late in the season, broke the NCAA freshman mark for the distance...
Princeton's Jed Graef was another league swimmer who fell victim to an upset-minded non-Ivy. North Carolina's Thompson Mann knocked off the Tiger captain in the 100-yard backstroke
...FISH, which are increasingly difficult to find among the wakes of powerboats, are now indicated by Aqua-Ear, an underwater sonic system that tells the fisherman where to cut off the engine. And the underwater swimmer, after years of face masks that cut vision from 180° to 75° and made the prettiest girl look like a sea monster, can now buy a new kind of contact lens: a tiny mask made of shatterproof plastic that covers the entire eyeball. Invented by Washington, D.C., Optometrist Alan Grant and Navy Captain Edward Beckman, the new lenses cost $175 a pair...
Swimming (3-0)--Impressive is the word for the swimmer's victory over Williston Academy in December. Behind throughout most of the meet, the team rallied to topple one of the strongest prep school swimming powers. This year's team is good-already former Australian Olympian Neville Hayes has broken the University record in the 200-yard butterfly--but, unfortunately, Princeton and Yale freshman swimmers are also potent and should provide some stiff opposition...
Swimming, however, was Kennedy's favorite sport and the one in which he performed best. He swam back-stroke four years and "worked damn hard at it," a friend said. Coach Harold Ulen remembers him as a good swimmer but not an outstanding one; he also recalls that Kennedy was frequently...