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...Canakkale, Turkey, Swimmer Florence Chadwick rounded out a breathless grand slam of four channels in five weeks by swimming the Dardanelles in the round-trip time of less than two hours in the choppy waters. Now the conqueror of the English Channel, the Strait of Gibraltar, the Bosporus and the Dardanelles, Swimmer Chadwick, 33, announced her retirement: "This is a sport for younger people. I think I'll take up golf." ¶ For an estimated $8,000 a year, First Lieut. Arnold Galiffa. 26, onetime West Point quarterback and 1949 All-America, gave up his Army career after three...
...towing several inflated rubber bags. When the officer shouted at him, the swimmer dived and escaped. Inspectors who got the bags out of the water found that they contained American tool bits, of a type in great demand in Communist China. The Communist frogman had hoped to attach them to the ferry's hull, for the journey out of Hong Kong's territorial waters. After that, smuggling them into Red China would have been easy...
Rava and the Chinese swimmer, each in his own way, were part of an international Communist drive to get strategic goods from the West. The British revenue officers and the Italian police were part of an effort by the free world governments to stop the Red smuggling. This week the U.S. economic experts who direct this effort published their third formal progress report, over the signature of Foreign Operations Director Harold E. Stassen. Their conclusion: controls on strategic materials exports to the Communists have considerably tightened...
...Tarifa, Spain, Channel Swimmer Florence Chadwick plunged into the Straits of Gibraltar, swam the eight miles to Africa in the record time of 5 hrs. 6 min. Her next target: the Bosporus...
...Wissant, France. Channel Swimmer Abdel Litif Abou Heif, 23, after swimming four miles to help his Egyptian teammates set a new cross-channel-relay record (10:51), dove right back into the swim and set a new England-France record of his own: 13:45. The U.S.'s Florence Chadwick, who hoped to make it both ways nonstop, got seasick and was pulled out of the water after ten hours...