Word: strokes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kiphuth concentrates on the arm depressors-muscles that pull the arms down. "The arm depressors must be strengthened for best results in pulling at the catch and to push through at the finish of the stroke," he explains. "I'm a great believer in swimming with the arms." For hours on end Yale swimmers rhythmically flail their arms in Payne Whitney exercise rooms, lying on boards in swimming position and struggling with weights...
...carefully shuffling his personnel, coach Bill Brooks used his available talent for successful results. Dick Seaton won the 220-yard freestyle and Koni Ulbrich took two third places in the freestyle sprints. In the 200-yard breast-stroke Jim Stanley and Doug McCartney swept first and second and the medley relay team of Gary Pildner, Stanley, Hammond, and Dave Seaton kept a winning distance ahead of the Indians...
Died. Meyer Berger, 60, topflight U.S. reporter, rewriteman, columnist ("About New York") for the New York Times, his paper's choice to write major stories from the conviction of Al Capone to the sinking of the Andrea Doria, winner of a Pulitzer Prize (1950); after a stroke; in Manhattan...
Died. Daniel Francois Malan, 84, one-time (1948-54) Prime Minister of South Africa. Boer supremacist who sent the Afrikaans word apartheid ricocheting around the world; following a stroke; in Stellenbosch, Union of South Africa. Among Malan's ambitions were the preservation of Africa for the Afrikaners and the creation of a "New Jerusalem"; i.e., a Boer republic, where "the sacred Boer race" would not suffer "pollution" by the black man. Among his achievements was a clause added to the national constitution: "The People of the Union acknowledge the sovereignty and guidance of Almighty...
Crimson bright spots are the back stroke, with Bill Murray and Gary Pildner against Pete Anderson, a smooth functioning medley relay team, and a potentially superb breast stroke combination in Jim Stanley and Doug McCartney. The latter two will have another dog-fight for first place, and both have been improving of late...