Word: swims
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time when the Bahamas and the rest of the West Indies are suffering from creeping civilization -even on the best powder beaches, people no longer lie on the sand but on chaise longues, swim not in the ocean but in shoreside swimming pools, at night prefer the soft mechanical thunder of the air conditioner to the sound of the tropical breeze through the palms-Burke offers the uncertain pleasure of putting the escapist back in touch with elemental nature...
...mighty East House splashed to its second triumph in as many years yesterday in the second annual intramural swim meet. Close on the heels of the Easties, who won with 61 points, North House finished second with 57, and South House trailed with...
Greek & Judo. Each year more than a million people use the worn buff building that the YMHA now hopes to expand at a cost of $3,400,000. The place throbs with judo, handball, bar bells and basketball, but no other Y has gone so far beyond the swim-gym syndrome. With 50 teachers and 700 students, it has a music school that most universities would envy. It runs a nursery school with a waiting list a generation long, a mammoth teen-age program of art, drama and discussion. It teaches thousands of Jewish adults to renew their religious roots...
...hunter's delight, Costa Rica is just as much an angler's paradise. Trusting, and innocently ignorant of flies with hooks, big rainbow trout swim serenely in never-fished mountain streams. Rivers churn with exotic fresh-water game-fish that cannot even be found in angling encyclopedias. There is the bobo, or bubblefish, an elusive silverside that dwells in the rapids and attacks a wet fly like something good to eat. There is the machaca, an acrobatic inhabitant of still-water pockets that looks like a cross between a herring and a white shad and often leaps itself...
...sunny Miami Beach morning seemed perfect for a swim. But from his lookout perch, Lifeguard Al Moore spotted some purplish blobs-Portuguese men-of-war were drifting shoreward. Moore chalked up a warning on a big blackboard at the Biltmore Terrace Hotel: "Danger-No Ocean Bathing Today...