Word: swimmer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rectilinear machismo of the Military Academy. It seems that there are inverts at the Point, Truscott writes. One, a model cadet named David Hand, turns up drowned, his body naked in Lake Popolopen and showing signs, in an autopsy, of recent homosexual activity. But Hand was an expert swimmer. Evidence suggests he was murdered by another cadet, also homosexual...
...Fayer's not the only top-notch swimmer the Crimson's lost. In fact, the entire four-women contingent that made-up last year's Ivy Champion relay squad is gone...
...Restrepo" is 22, about average age for that specialist known as a cocaine diver. He is darker skinned than most Colombians and a good swimmer, both characteristics common to people from the Buenaventura coastal area where he was born. His role is to retrieve a 4-lb. waterproof bag of cocaine dumped overboard from a Grancolombiana line freighter docked at the Atlantic Avenue wharf in Brooklyn. He works at night, wearing a black wetsuit, and he is very cautious. A similar diver, Carlos Riascos, had his throat slit and body dumped in the river as he clambered ashore with...
...first week, Mack's departure was carried out with the dignity and grace that his friends have come to expect of him. He announced at a team gathering that he was leaving because he "had other things to check out," activities that the rigid schedule of a competitive swimmer doesn't allow time...
...case, but "had no idea why the penalties were so harsh for those two (Tallman and Foreman)." Layton's bewilderment evoked memories of other chapters in the AAU's illustrious past. Time magazine reported one incident several years ago in which the AAU suspended Fort Lauderdale swimmer Jamie Nelson for three years for saying that a certain brand of break-fast cereal had helped her recover faster from a pulled muscle. She was five years old at the time. Renowned labor negotiator Theodore Kheel, commenting on the results of a 27 month inquiry revolving around the notorious AAU-NCAA rivalry...