Word: swimming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What started the ape men walking on their hind legs? Dr. Britton installed a female chimp named Bonga on a small island in a lake at Charlottesville, Va. Bonga could not swim and therefore had to make the best of it, even though the Virginia winter soon brought snow. When there was snow on the ground, Bonga walked upright, apparently to keep her hands and belly from getting cold...
...home, the Eden government plans to keep the welfare state and maintain full employment. "Any economist who talks of pools of unemployment should be thrown in and made to swim in one," says Chancellor Butler flatly. But Eden and Butler both expect to pay more attention to "Tory democracy," meaning tax cuts to stimulate investment, slum clearance by private builders, better roads and railroads...
Worry Wart. As the championships got underway last week in Daytona Beach's Welch Municipal Pool, the sleek-muscled star of the Walter Reed Swim Club* had more reason to collapse than to set records. All night Shelley Mann (daughter of an electrical engineer) had lain awake worrying. Even the presence of Tommy, her good-luck Teddy bear, had not lulled her to sleep. In the morning, she ground out a fast 58.9-second qualifying dash for the 100-yd. freestyle. Later, she led her qualifying heat once again as she clocked 5:31.8 in the punishing...
Churning Machines. Such stamina is the secret of the Walter Reed girls' success-and it is not easily come by. Year-round, the youngsters let nothing, not even their school work, interfere with training. Every day finds them out in their sagging, stark black swim suits, ready to start a practice session by 7 a.m. And every morning, under the calm and skillful guidance of Army Pfc. Stan...
...help her teammates to the 400-yd. medley relay title. Army Lt. Betty Mullen, oldest of the Reed girls and a freestyle specialist before she swam for Tinkham, set a sure world record in the 100-yd. butterfly (1:05.4). With the whole team pitching in, the Walter Reed Swim piled up 95 points for their third championship in a row. Marveled a rival coach: "A crazy bunch of churning machines...