Word: swims
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fool informed King Lear on the heath: "Prithee, nuncle, be contented; 'tis a naughty night to swim in. Now a little fire . . ." Russia's new Lear, Nilcita Khrushchev, passed his 72nd birthday on the heath outside his dacha near Moscow. His family held a pleasant little party all right, but alack, the palace-controlled Soviet press had neither poetry nor prose to mark the event. To them, the king is dead. And when the old dictator lit a bonfire to celebrate, the heavens opened and the rains doused Nikita's flame...
...Cool. American still professes itself "delighted" with its president's plan. It has spent more than $1,000,000 on promotion (including a travel guide called Go-Go American, which tells the teens, among other things, where in San Francisco to find "those 'Topless Swim' girls") and has so far earned $2,200,000 flying 100,000 kids, 20% of them first-time air travelers. For the carriers that are losing their cool, onetime Schoolmaster Sadler had some words of admonishment: "You can't carry exuberant girls and boys without having some of them...
...Marathon Swim...
...Cliffe Swim Meet...
Swimmers competed at the Radcliffe Pool during open hours, entering as many laps as they could swim toward their House total. Over the five days, 115 swimmers swam a total of over 62 miles. Freshman Anne Aylward registered the highest individual total, logging 416 laps...