Word: swimmingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...helping his fellow passengers, Ian MacDonald, later reported that he worked with one hand grabbing the rail "and the other grasping hands, shoulders, legs and even hair to stop tumbling bodies." As the huge ship started sinking, those who could get aboard lifeboats rowed furiously away. Others tried to swim for it. One crewman jumped in with a child under each arm. In the icy waters, mothers cradled their babies in life jackets as rescue craft circled around them. By week's end 52 persons had been found dead or were presumed drowned...
...ocean. He'd run like he was trying to commit suicide." After four years in Hawaii, the Spitz family moved to Sacramento, Calif., where Mark got his first competitive instruction at a local Y.M.C.A. By the time he was ten, the youngster held 17 national age-group swimming records, and when he was 14, his father took him aside. "We have to do something now-or nothing," said Papa Spitz. "We can 1 live here and you can forget about competitive swimming. Or we can go to Santa Clara and turn you over to George Haines"-coach...
...allows him to kick anywhere from 6 in. to 12 in. deeper than his competitors. "Mark's whole body ls so flexible," says his father that the water just seems to slip past him. That flexibility also gives him an abnormally long stroke; in the butterfly he can swim the length of a 25-yd pool with only 13 strokes, while most swimmers require 15 or 16. "I'm slower but I'm faster," he explains. "I mean that I stroke slower-but I get there faster...
Adams has been swimming competitively since he was 13 years old. "I learned to swim out of self defense when my brother threw me off a dock," he said...
...Harvard Economist John Kenneth Galbraith, who as chairman of the Americans for Dem ocratic Action helped throw the group's endorsement to McCarthy, turned up. So did Poet Robert Lowell, who told listeners that the Republicans offered no alternative because "they cannot sink and they will not swim." Actors Robert Ryan and Tony Randall took to the stump, but Paul Newman's appearances had to be circumscribed for fear of a riot among Hampshirewomen...