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...student, 19-year-old freshman Glenn Hayes from Bartlett. N.H. was apparently overwhelmed by the cold water and the weight of heavy, wet clothes when he attempted to swim to land. Hayes's body was found at 5:17 p.m. near Greenland, N.H. seven hours after the first boats were swamped...
...provide shelter and sustenance for aquatic life. Says Puerto Rico's Arsenio Rodriguez Mercado, a scientific adviser to the U.N. Environment Program: "Sewage generated by 30 million people is dumped more or less untreated into the Caribbean." On some islands, hotels discharge wastes into the waters where guests swim. Adding to the mess are the cruise ships and yachts anchored offshore...
...godsend" is what Golf Pro Lew Bullock calls the IBM Personal Computer that totes up members' handicaps for the Bowling Green Golf Club in Oak Ridge, N.J. "It's a lifesaver," says Bill Poland, board member of the Northlake Aquatic Club swim team in Atlanta, of the Osborne computer he carries poolside to chart practice and meet results. "What used to take twelve people and two hours now takes two people and no time...
Aided by apprentices, the man makes beautiful images. After a banner unfolds to announce THE PICKPOCKET'S NIGHTMARE, the man stands between two screens, and mystically his arms and hands elongate, detach from his body, swim through air. As the dying light turns them orange like giant goldfish, six hands wriggle, free in space...
...beat and hummable "He's Got Body, He's Got Soul." No slouches either are the Wombatts, Jackie's back-up band, played by the real life members of The Swingers, whose anties conjure up early Beatles movies. But perhaps the best song and dance, or rather song and swim routine occurs when Jackie is invited to Tony Lambert's all male gay pool party. The result is an Esther Williams synchronized swim number composed entirely of gay men, not quite in drag, but almost...