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...Nazis. Since 1949, a million ex-Nazis have been re-enfranchised. A dozen pennywhistle Fuhrers are after their votes, but most of their votes will probably go to the extreme right wing of Konrad Adenauer's coalition. Some queer fish have swum into the Free Democratic Party and the German Party, seeking respectability. Until recently they had nowhere else...
...finish, Jimmy McLane had swum the fastest 400 meters of his life. But Moore was faster. With McLane nine feet behind him, Wayne had covered the distance in 4 min. 36.2 sec., nearly five seconds under the Olympic record. Only three swimmers have ever beaten Wayne's time: Japan's Hironoshin Furuhashi, Australia's Marshall and Ohio's Konno, who surprised most tryout watchers last week by having to thrash desperately to squeeze out his third place and Olympic berth behind Moore and McLane...
...maque to heave to. Instead, she made a break for it, and raced down the Seine on the crest of the tide. Off the village of Quillebeuf, she hit a sandbank, broached to and capsized. By the time her captain and crew of twelve had swum the 120-odd meters to shore, the Télémaque had sunk...
...wake from France to Britain. Last year a 31-year-old stenographer from San Diego named Florence Chadwick topped the Ederle record by swimming the distance in 13 hr. 20 min. (TIME, Aug. 21, 1950). But until last week no woman, and only nine men, had ever swum the Channel eastward from Dover to Cap Gris-Nez, the 21-mile stretch which, like a cat, hates to be stroked the wrong...
...leave her shattered hulk to rust! Long has she rocked below, And many a fish has swum to see The grandma of the "Mo'; Above her piles the coastal tramp And plops the dinghy's oar;--The Yankee Cheese Box on a Raft Shail rout the Reb no more...