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That's the story for the men's swim team so far this season, by far the most talented and successful of the winter's teams. Joe Bernal's conglomeration of swift aquawonders are sitting haughtily atop the impressive pile of statistics; but as the season resumes this week, the Crimson swimmers face the ultimate test--the Chem 20 of their water world--this Saturday...
...since the disintegration of South Viet Nam and the fall of Saigon four years ago had Southeast Asia witnessed such a swift and stunning shift in political power. Faced with the invasion of Cambodia by twelve Vietnamese divisions totaling 100,000 men, the Democratic Kampuchean government of Premier Pol Pot hunkered down in Phnom-Penh and pledged itself to annihilate the oncoming "Vietnamese clique." Within hours after that brave statement, Phnom-Penh had fallen, the Pol Pot government and many of its soldiers were in flight, and foreign diplomats together with nearly 700 Chinese and North Korean advisers were beating...
...Some swift skating by Jack Hughes saved an open-net goal in the field minute as he chased down a Jim Lovitt roller, poking the puck away just a few feet in front of the Harvard cage...
...large portion of U.S. combat vehicles and aircraft are kept permanently loaded, even though this increases the risk of accidents. At the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment's base in Fulda, for example, helicopters, tanks, armored personnel carriers and scout cars are fully armed and lined up for swift departure. Says Colonel Robert Sunell, the regiment's commander: "I won't tell you how fast I can move this regiment out of its barracks, but it's damned fast. And we shave time every day." Because ammunition is now stored in forward areas, combat vehicles no longer...
...first chance to mount a real pulpit came when he was 14 and working at a nearby hospital; some of his black co-workers invited him to bring his Bible and give a sermon at their church. "You could see there was something haywire even at that time," says Swift. But Mrs. Kennedy's daughter Thelma Manning remembers Jones more fondly: "He had a little white shaggy-haired dog. They were inseparable. I want people to know Jim Jones had a good side...