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...Marine Corps commandant, in Bethesda Naval Hospital, Md., with a broken arm and possible concussion after being thrown by his horse; Presidential Scientific Adviser Jerome Wiesner, 48, in Otis Air Force Base Hospital with pneumonia after his 10-ft. sailboat capsized off Martha's Vineyard. A poor swimmer, Wiesner clung to the boat while his son Joshua, 10, swam for help, worried frantically after 45 minutes that the boy had drowned. Rescued by a passing boat, Wiesner had the Coast Guard dredging the bay when word came that Joshua too had been picked up, was safe at home...
...place. In summer, he spends as much time as possible in swimming so the mouse will be invisible under water. Struggling in other ways against the teasing derision of his clannishly normal classmates, he makes himself the best gymnast in the school, as well as the best swimmer, diver and the best student. The war is on. Mahlke resolves to win the Iron Cross, Germany's highest military honor. But no matter what he does he remains an outcast-sometimes inspiring awe, but never inspiring acceptance...
...final, Pringle went into the last 100 a full body length ahead of Townsend, but he just could not stave off the strong freestyle finish of the Yale swimmer...
Dave Abramson, the only other Harvard swimmer in the meet, placed third in his heat of the 500-yard freestyle with a time of 5:13.0, but did not qualify for the finals. The race was won by John Konrad of Southern California in a time...
...only other Harvard swimmer to place in a final heat was Steve Seagren in the 1650-yard freestyle. Seagren failed to place in the finals...