Word: swimming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Correspondent Edward Hughes last week. According to the dictum of Mao Tse-tung, guerrilla fighters must be able to live among a friendly population like fish in water. But El Fatah at that time "had no audience. Without the people to listen to us, we had no sea to swim in-the fish had no oxygen...
Coach Bill Brooks expects six sophomores to be major factors in the team's success. Steve Krausse, a regular winner last year, will swim in the distance freestyle events, and Johnny Munk will perform as a butterfly man. Toby Gerhart and Dave Powlison are both solid freestylers, and Mike Cahalan in the sprints and Steve Baumgart in the breaststroke also show great promise...
...Although your articles on the Olympics were frustratingly short, they did provide insight as to the thrill and drama of the Games. But while you gave credit to the dominance of the American swim team, the name of Charlie Hickcox was absent. Fast becoming the Yanks' premier male swimmer, Hickcox grabbed three golds and a silver medal in Mexico. He annexed the 200-and 400-meter individual medley crowns and swam to a second place in the 100-meter backstroke. He also led off America's world-record-setting medley relay team. Hickcox now holds world records...
When it leaves the ocean to swim up the rivers of the Northwest and spawn, the Pacific salmon is lithe and healthy. As little as two weeks later, it degenerates into an aged, colorless and almost lifeless fish. Its flesh wastes away, bones soften, and skin peels off. The secretion of mucous material that keeps scales healthy suddenly stops, and the fish falls prey to fungus infections. Tiny parasitic worms multiply and spread through the fish's body; some glands run wild, others cease functioning...
Only Harvard-Radcliffe undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty and administration families are eligible to use the pool. Children under eight, however, will not be allowed to swim...