Word: swimming
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Minuscule Dosage. The first involved Rick DeMont, 16, a slender distance swimmer from San Rafael, Calif., who had won the 400-meter freestyle by 1/100 sec. over Australia's Brad Cooper. Only minutes before he was to swim in the finals of the 1,500-meter freestyle, DeMont was told that he had been disqualified; an illegal stimulant, ephedrine, had been found in his urine specimen, submitted after the 400. The ephedrine was in prescribed medication that DeMont, an asthmatic, had been taking for years and that he had noted on his Olympic medical form. But neither the Olympic...
Biochemists Robert M. Macnab and Daniel Koshland were investigating a characteristic that S. typhimurium shares with many other bacteria: it responds strongly to changes in external stimuli. If, for instance, a hostile substance is introduced into its surroundings, the bacterium uses its flagella -long, hairlike appendages-to swim away from it. But if something attractive is placed near by-say, the sugar, glucose-it will move toward it. How the bacterium chooses its direction is still not fully understood, but it apparently makes its way on a trial-and-error basis. Tumbling to and fro, it senses that taking certain...
...Tung said, the guerrillas must be like fish in the sea," he said, quoting as uneasy ally. "If the sea is inhospitable, the fish cannot swim...
...Hugh. Let's see....Another big question has to be Don Gambril's ability to overcome a sparse him of some of his best prospects. When all those swimming standouts that he'd lined up to build his East Coast empire decided not to come to Harvard after all, his plans to make the Crimson the class of Eastern swimming were given a pretty stiff shove backwards. Now the big question is whether or not he can overcome this setback and get a better season out of his high-geared swim program than last year's 5-4 record...
Rivalry. When Mark's family moved to Walnut Creek, Calif, in 1961, Chavoor suggested that he join the program at the prestigious Santa Clara Swim Club under the direction of crusty George Haines?who cast an appraising eye at Spitz's first few performances and predicted: "He'll probably be the best swimmer in the world." That kind of praise was not given lightly; among Haines' stable of champions was Don Schollander, who won four gold medals at Tokyo in 1964. Mark, then 14, joined the club that year, and immediately became a formidable rival of Schollander, who was four...