Word: swims
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Supernumerary Stars. Nowhere were the stunning strength and depth of the U.S. team more evident than in swim ming. Even the supernumeraries turned into stars. California's Mark Spitz, who had been favored to win as many as five gold medals, managed only two-both in relays-and finished dead last in his specialty, the 200-meter butterfly. Pennsylvania's Carl Robie did his job for him, beating Britain's Martyn Wood-roffe to the touch board by two yards...
Much of the credit for the South House victory, said one wet source, goes to the support of dorm head residents. For the first time in Marathon history, men were allowed to swim in the contest. South House male residents, said the source, not only swam but brought their wives...
...swim will start in just a few minutes, as soon as we get the kayaks out of the pool," Mrs. Alice McCabe, the spry, attractive director of Radcliffe swimming, said. A student with neatly combed blond hair and a blond moustache paddled by. "The Harvard-Radcliffe Kayak Club didn't have a home," Mrs. McCabe explained, "so we welcomed them to ours...
...with his hands on his hips suddenly dove into the pool, scrambled back out, wiped the water from his face with a grimace, and put his hands back on his hips. He was a freshman and his name was Ted. "I like to swim," he said, "but I was hoping there would be water polo. I just came for the hell of it.... I wish there were more girls...
THERE is a new movie written and directed by Tim Hunter. (All I really want to say here is, Go see it for vourself. Patterns over patterns. If you are unselfish enough to jump deep into other people's pools, it's a stone gas. Can you swim?) Anyway, a movie. Name of 3 Sisters. Plot of Changes...