Word: swims
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...point, the harp seals of maritime Canada live fortuitous lives. The gray-tan harp-so called because of a harp-shaped black blotch on its back-cannot swim at birth and dies if whelped into the frigid ocean off Labrador. By a generous natural coincidence, however, whelping occurs just as spring thaws begin to break up the winter ice in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Taking advantage of the breakup, pregnant cows among the 800,000 harps make their way south. Swimming down the Labrador coast and through the Strait of Belle Isle, they enter the broad Gulf...
...rentals in some cases are $250 a month. The Portuguese businessman who rents the beds and leases the cars is referred to, unaffectionately, as Al Capone. Returning from a night's work, crews breakfast-usually on whisky to untangle their gut knots-sleep, swim, send money home. Like all airmen, they do a lot of ground flying: when their ecclesiastical employers are out of earshot, they talk of bombing Lagos or heroically knocking down the Intruder by maneuvering a wingtip under his wingtip in the darkness and "flipping his ass to kingdom come." They joke grimly over the fact...
Cahalan, who was recently elected next year's captain, is one of the strongest entrants in the freestyles at 50 and 100 yards, and will also swim on the 400-yard freestyle relay team...
Aside from these three individuals, Harvard's hopes of an impressive team performance rest on the freestyle relay teams at 400 and 800 yards. The 400 team is composed of Cahalan, John Bragg, Dave Powlison, and Toby Gerhart. Bragg, Powlison, and Gerhart also swim on the 800 quartet, joined by Krause...
East House won seven of the eleven events. Kathy Fletcher '71, who did not swim competitively until last year, was the only double winner in individual events, earning firsts in the freestyle and individual medley. Julie P. Anderson '71 and Eleanor T. Hobbs '69 were the other individual winners for East House...