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...schooling would end in frustration. "I'm absolutely, terribly influenced by economic concerns," said Nora M. Hemann, who has applied to a fine arts program. "I'm interested in teaching, and I've heard it's a very closed field; as I understand it, it's either sink or swim...
Three weeks ago, as the Harvard water polo team not in the stands at Brown's Smith Swim Center awaiting a contest with the Bruins, the talk turned to media guides. And, in particular, to the question of why Harvard prints nothing comparable to the informative "Brown University Water Polo 1962 Guide...
...sailed his 9-ft. ⅞-in. sailboat, Wind's Will, into Falmouth after a 78-day voyage across the Atlantic. Dunlop broke a record set only two weeks before for an Atlantic crossing in the smallest boat. Ashby Harper, 65, an Albuquerque headmaster, became the oldest person to swim the English Channel. "I think my swim shows that there are plenty of things people can do when they are over 65," said Harper, who made the 30-mile swim in 13 hr. 52 min. As it turned out, Harper shared the chilly waters with Cindy Nicholas, 24, a Canadian...
Droughts at this time of year have dried the Rio Grande to a trickle at many points and turned the riverbed into a soggy avenue of escape. Illegal aliens, who are disparagingly called wetbacks because they have to swim across the river, can now cross at El Paso by wading through knee-deep water. Once on the other side, they dash into town and quickly melt into the general population. In other places the immigrants must still swim, row boats or paddle across the river in rubber inner tubes. Their greatest worry is always the border agents patrolling in vans...
...entering the real world, in which, presumably, they will loss their tans and become cynical. They travel to Santorini, an island off Greece, where thousands of beautiful people between the ages of 22 and 25 gather each summer to lie on the white cliffs, roll in the black sand, swim in the blue sea, and hump like little Greek bunny rabbits. Though the two Americans are initially restrained by faint Puritan twinges, they become intoxicated by the hedonistic atmosphere and make their share of whoopie in a water bed-equipped villa on a hill...