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...family, but all was lost in the darkness, behind blinding sheets of rain. "Everything was dark -- rain, rain. I was floating for several hours," he recalled of the hours he passed at sea before sailors from a naval vessel pulled him to safety. "I am a good swimmer, but it was terrible. I really do not know how I survived. And where," he asked, tears in his eyes, "where are my near and dear ones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Disasters Trail of Tears and Anguish | 6/10/1985 | See Source »

Women's varsity swimmer and backstroke specialist Elaine Sang '87 sits behind the starting blocks ten minutes before she is scheduled to swim. "If I do poorly, I don't think it's because I was there really early. But if I don't get behind the blocks early, I can then blame my performance...

Author: By Harry B. Lerner, | Title: Psyching Up With Superstition | 4/10/1985 | See Source »

...right up to the block seconds before the starting pistol, and then performed amazingly, would she change her ritual? "I might think it over a bit," the swimmer says...

Author: By Harry B. Lerner, | Title: Psyching Up With Superstition | 4/10/1985 | See Source »

...Swim teams guard their banners like the Roman legions guarded their aquilifers," said Harvard swimmer Lars Rierson, referring to the eagle-topped stafs carried by Roman soldiers...

Author: By Charles C. Matthews, | Title: Aqua Antics | 3/12/1985 | See Source »

Rowdy Gaines, Olympic gold medal swimmer, on his movie- acting ambitions: "I would love to be Tarzan, but it would depend on who Jane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Record: Mar. 11, 1985 | 3/11/1985 | See Source »

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