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Though still a club team, Yale did not allow Harvard to swim to an easy victory...
...when she went on calls with her father into the bush, where people would gather before sunrise to await them, Teresa saw what were the grim realities of life for most people in the country. To swim at dawn or dusk was to risk malaria; the slightest malady, left untreated, could become a death sentence. And she knew the menacing side of even a privileged existence under a dictatorship. Her father wouldn't let his criticisms of the government's repressive economic and racial policies go beyond the family dinner table. She went away to college in South Africa, where...
...burden to a happy reincarnation. At Wat Khunsamutjeen in nearby Samut Prakan province, monks chant to the sound of lapping surf. Erosion and rising sea levels have turned the temple into an island. Worshippers negotiate a wave-lashed, rickety wooden walkway, take a boat from the mainland, or simply swim. Back in Bangkok, check out Wat Phasee if you like your history gory. In the capital's early days, subjects who displeased the King were beheaded there. You won't see any skulls, but some of the monks swear they see headless ghosts roaming the corridors at night...
After sweeping the two breastroke events, Grant battled in a one-on-one dual with UNC’s Tristan Davidson in the 200-yard individual medley. Although Grant was touched out at the finish, his swim was perhaps the most exciting of the day as each swimmer enlivened both squads and the crowd...
...Splish, Splash Who would want to spend 14 1/2 hours in the chilly waters of the English Channel? Not many, but 19-year-old Gertrude Ederle, who died at the age of 98 on Dec. 1, did just that, and she set the record as the first woman to swim the Channel [Milestones, Dec. 15], beating by two hours the best men's time. We reported her swim from France to Britain in an Aug. 16, 1926, article...