Word: swimming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...great personal triumph for the brilliant young coach. The 27-year-old Olympic diver has brought swimming to life again at Princeton. His men seem to swim with unusual determination; they take strokes with their whole body, not just arms and legs...
...Canadian soldiers being disarmed by the Congolese. As usual in the Congo, the whole thing started with a misunderstanding compounded by native Congolese hysteria. On a peaceful, sunny Sunday at a lake outside Leopoldville, where hundreds of Belgian families and off-duty U.N. employees had gone to picnic and swim, a U.N. truck with armed Tunisian U.N. troops drew up with urgent orders from Dayal's headquarters, instructing all U.N. people to leave the area immediately. On a nearby hillside, scores of Congolese troops, also relaxing with their wives and girl friends after a hard week of maneuvers, heard...
...medley relay coach Bill Brooks will probably swim about the same team that set a pool record against Yale last Saturday. Bob Kaufman (55.5) will lead off in the backstroke, followed by Bill Schellstede (1:04.5), Alan Engleberg (53.9), and probably Bill Zentgraf (49.0). This team can do between 3:43 and 3:44, and that should be good enough for first...
Bruce Hunter probably will not swim in the medley, as he has titles to defend in the 100 (48.6) and in the freestyle relay. Hunter also has his sights set on regaining the Easterns title in the 50, an event which he lost to Dartmouth's Charlie Brown last year...
Perhaps the most encouraging fact is that the boys are all improving steadily. There is not one case of a swimmer who has hit his peak in high school--as did Yale's Jim Loofbourrow--and then continued to swim the same times all through college...