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There is nothing new, or even particularly secret, about the hundreds of thousands of Mexican "wetbacks" (mojados, as they are known to their Chicano cousins), who have swum the Rio Grande or simply walked into the U.S. at some point along the hundreds of miles of largely unpatrolled border. Nor is there much that the badly undermanned U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service can do about keeping the immigrants out. The "illegals" who are caught-some 320,000 during the last fiscal year-are simply sent back across the border. The people who employ, encourage and often exploit them...
Costin, Servilla and Sinnott, all freshmen, and Anderson, a senior, were AAU swimmers in high school. Fletcher a senior and co-captain, had never swum competitively before coming to Radcliffe. Costin was New England high school champion in the 50-yard freestyle last year...
...raised in a California hatchery was shifted to a different stream when it was a year old. At spawning time the next year, the fish appeared back in its old tank. From the sea, it had found and ascended its home stream, crossed under U.S. Highway 101 by culvert, swum through a storm sewer and up to a flume, finally wriggled through a right-angled 4-in. drainpipe, knocking off its wire cap, and leaped across a wire net that surrounded the drain...
Arthur T. Evans III '70 and J. Cleve Livingston '70, secretaries of athletics for Lowell House, suggested including girls on the teams after a Lowell House girl offered to compete with the House swimming team. The girl, Nancy J. Altanan '71, has swum in the past with the Ra?lcliffe team...
...events, the 1000-free and the three, meter dive, will not be swum because Brown is in the New England League. rather than the Eastern League, and the New England meets don't have those two events. It is particularly appropriate that there is no three-meter dive since the pool is only eight feet deep...