Word: swimming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...refugees a day are still managing to vault the wall to reach freedom in the West, including in the last three weeks no fewer than 65 Vopos. But a young East German worker, put to felling trees along the Teltow Canal, leaped into the water to try to swim to freedom, was ruthlessly riddled with machine pistol fire-the second refugee to be killed trying to swim to freedom. Next day, despite a hail of bullets, a third swimmer made it. The Vopos promptly strung a double row of barbed wire along the canal...
...West. One mason who was at work on the wall itself leapfrogged over the cement blocks and fled into West Berlin when his day's labor was done. Less fortunate was the man who jumped into a Spree River inlet near the old Reichstag and tried to swim the 100 yards to safety; border guards riddled him with bullets before he got halfway across...
...perfect natural prison, too small (three square miles) to permit unnoticed escape, too far from the nearest land (35 miles) to swim, Ustica is believed to have begun its penal history in the 7th century B.C., when mutinous Carthaginian soldiers were exiled there and starved until they ate each other. After the Carthaginians came Greek refugees and Phoenician exiles-and so on down the centuries. Mussolini banished thousands of political opponents to Ustica, often as many as 1,500 at a time; many were homosexuals who swished through the city streets in lipstick and silk pajamas, performed dances by night...
...meet sensation at last week's women's A.A.U. swimming championships in Philadelphia was ash-blonde Chris von Saltza, 17, who hoped to climax her competitive career by winning six gold medals. But Chris's retirement party was ruined by a willowy, 16-year-old upstart, Carolyn House of Los Angeles, who beat Chris in the 400-meter freestyle, also won the 200-meter and 1,500-meter races to swim off with three gold medals...
...problems-notably in Indo-China and with the European Defense Community-grew worse, Dillon stepped up to the challenge of his assignment. He and Phyllis spent an hour daily with a French tutor; within weeks Dillon was visiting the Quai d'Orsay without an interpreter. In a social swim where lavish entertainment was a matter of courses...