Word: swimming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...those at home was House Minority Leader Gerald Rudolph Ford, 60, keeping his cool in his suburban Virginia home with a 20-minute swim. He had just climbed out of the pool, the dinner steaks were on the burner, when the telephone rang. It was the President. Puckishly, almost as though he were a secretary, he said: "Jerry, Al Haig has a message for you." The White House chief of staff came on the line and said: "I've got good news for you. The President wants you to be Vice President." Haig suggested that Ford might want...
...first glance, they seem to be some kind of exotic aquatic life photographed against a background of seaweed. But the spherical creatures portrayed in the pictures taken by scientists from Manhattan's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and Rockefeller University swim not in the sea but in the human bloodstream. They are lymphocytes, cells that are essential parts of the immune system and protect the body against invasion by germs and other foreign matter. Magnified about 13,000 times by a scanning electron microscope, they reveal for the first time structural differences between the two kinds of lymphocytes...
...thought waterpolo would be an interesting way to warm up for the swim season, but it's turned out to be pretty frustrating," she said. "There's a lot of technique involved...
...mighty mind but as a comfortable pal who said sane things. Dorothy Parker was a close if infuriating friend. In 1937 she and Lillian traveled to Paris together. Parker was invited by the rich and famous to "tennis she didn't play and pools she didn't swim in." She thought, says Hellman sharply, "that nobody could buy her. She was wrong: they could and did for years." It is a rather sad irony that the book should be called Pentimento, an artist's term for an old image that reappears through later repainting done...
...GAMBRIL is gone. Gambril who brought crewcuts and coaching genius to the IAB pool. Gambril, who pumped life into an antiquated and mediocre swimming program and transformed it into an aquatic tour de force, an invincibility, a flawlessly primed winning machine, who paced the pool deck at the IAB like an impatient and regal lion that knows that he want sand realizes that he has limited time to attain it, and brought a share of an Eastern title to Cambridge in two years, who recruited finagled, persuaded, and cajoled enough high school seniors across the country to come east...