Word: swimming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Refuse a try at the Channel swim...
...from some ministry shows up with hundreds of forms in triplicate (red tape in Socialist governments). Then the army invades with tanks and 245 soldiers (national emergency over uranium egg). And last but not least, the Navy and the Air Corps patrol the farm because a duck can also swim...
Gertrude Ederle, now 44, was the first woman to swim the English Channel, in 1926. Since then, a dozen women have followed in her wake from France to Britain. Last year a 31-year-old stenographer from San Diego named Florence Chadwick topped the Ederle record by swimming the distance in 13 hr. 20 min. (TIME, Aug. 21, 1950). But until last week no woman, and only nine men, had ever swum the Channel eastward from Dover to Cap Gris-Nez, the 21-mile stretch which, like a cat, hates to be stroked the wrong...
...Clouds. After a couple of unsuccessful attempts at other products (aluminum skiffs, automobile fenders), Douglas decided to sink or swim with aviation, began his comeback with his DC-6, his bigger C124 Globemaster, which can carry everything from trucks and bulldozers to heavy artillery, and AD attack bombers for the Navy...
During the first week the athletic ability of the freshmen will also begin to be tested. Every man must be able to swim 50 yards or he will be assigned to swimming classes until he can. A more vigorous examination is the physical efficiency, or step test...