Word: swimming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lafayette (Ind.) Swim Club, team honors in the National A.A.U. women's indoor championship; in Houston, Texas. The meet's outstanding performer (and a newcomer to watch for in the 1952 Olympics): 17-year-old Mary Freeman, a George Washington University freshman, who won the 200-yd. backstroke, the 300-yd. individual medley, placed third in the 100-yd. backstroke...
...Poonsters Take Swim...
...stucco house with "the biggest mortgage on the block." There, some 25 Di Salles of three generations 'and any number of guests converge on weekends. They devour mountains of Myrtle's antipasto, prosciutto, spaghetti, pork and chicken, and then, with a pot of caffe espresso at hand, swim for the rest of the afternoon in the warm gurgling current of Italo-American argument and gossip...
...week's end, his desk clear at last, Harry Truman collected his staff and flew to Key West for his first real vacation in almost a year. For 23 days he would swim, read, sleep, bake his aching muscles and display his fancy sports shirts...
Reduced to its simplest terms, the Cureton cure consists of 1) regular, rhythmic exercise (e.g., a half-hour swim or a twomile walk each day), to strengthen the body's big muscles and promote the flow of blood back to the heart; 2) a diet of more green and yellow vegetables, no excess fats, starches or sugars, and "not too much of anything." Dr. Cureton stresses the fact that this is not a reducing regimen, nor is it for sick men. The purpose is to tone up the cardio-vascular system, strengthen the heart, improve the digestion, clear...