Word: swimming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Invitational, each school was permitted to enter only one diver and each individual could swim in no more than four events including relays...
...Bergère and the Casino de Paris. In the late '20s and early '30s he became a very highly paid American movie idol. Even Greta Garbo, for a fleeting moment, once felt that it might be nice to be with him. "Do you know how to swim, Monsieur Chevalier?" Greta asked at a dinner party in Hollywood. "Mais oui," replied Chevalier hesitantly. "Then let's go for a dip in the ocean right now," said the Swedish actress. "But it's midnight," objected the Frenchman. "Le Pacifique est glacial." Garbo never talked to Chevalier again...
...weren't prepared to swim our best times." Gambril said yesterday. "What we were trying to do was match up the races, and scrap to pick up points. As it turned out all we needed was one more point...
...trained all summer, will be sorely missed, Gambril said, because of his scoring potential in three events. Watson, who trained with Gambril this summer in California, was a constant threat in the 1000 yard freestyle, and at one point was ranked fifth in the nation in the one-mile swim...
...pool is not just an athletic frill. It is a sort of extension of the University Health Services. There are people who have been seriously advised by their doctors to swim regularly but who shun the pool because it is so crowded. Laurence Wylie Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France