Word: swum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Crimson coach Bill Brooks threw everything he had into the opening relay in the dim hope of an upset victory over a Yale medley team that had already swum more than a second faster than the Harvard pool record...
...killing himself to stay even. In the last lap Pringle tired noticeably, and first Karetsky, then Bissell and Crimson junior Jim Coffman passed him for a Yale sweep and new pool and Yale records. Karetsky's time, 2:04.2, was four seconds better than he had ever swum before, and surpassed former Yale great Tim Jecko's mark by more than a second...
...Neuberger, taking the Senate seat held by her husband Richard until his death last March, got a brotherly buss from Democratic Elder Statesman Adlai Stevenson, U.S. Ambassador-designate to the U.N. Meanwhile, after 24 years in the Senate, Rhode Island's durable Democrat Theodore Francis Greene - having walked, swum and cerebrated himself to the hearty age of 93 - left that august body (voluntarily, because he could surely have been re-elected had he chosen to run again last November), as the oldest man ever to serve in the Senate...
...moment we do not think it necessary." Why not? The colony is not only unashamedly capitalistic; it is also an escape hatch for thousands fleeing Red oppression on the mainland. Entire fleets of fishing junks have arrived at Hong Kong with their crews and families. Some desperate men have swum to safety; others escape by being packed like sardines under the floorboards of coastal ships...
...first water about a pair of professional divers. The first episode got them into a struggle to outdo another diver in collecting manganese deposits off Hawaii. It could have been so much submarine corn if the show had not been crisply written and cleanly shot, and well swum by Actors Keith Larsen and Jeremy Slate. Aquanauts' chase scenes take on an odd, ballet quality 35 fathoms down, and the special language of the skindivers is at least less rusty than the dialogue that comes out of the average Warner Bros.' stage coach. On last week's show...