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Beckman said she became interested in making the age-old swim from England to France after helping to train another swimmer for the challenge last year. When that woman broke a foot and called off the swim. Beckman decided to give it a try for herself and applied to the Channel Swimming Association for a swim...
Sharon Beckman '80 will attempt to swim the English Channel later this week, probably sometimes between Thursday and Sunday. The former Harvard swimmer has trained with Crimson Coach Stephhanie Walsh and is raising money through pledges for the Harvard-Radcliffe Foundation for Women's Athletics...
...with a financial solution. If the Soviets, or the U.S. Government on their behalf, agree to pay the $75,000 or so in property taxes that would normally be owed to the Glen Cove treasury from the estate, would the diplomats be set free to swim and swing their racquets and clubs...
...along with his factory. Thus the town was born. Today Weirton Steel Co. is a division of National Steel Corp., but a majority of the labor force in Weirton (pop. 25,536) still works in the rumbling, fuming steelworks along Main Street. "It's sink or swim together," says Mary Brula, a bank teller whose husband has worked at Weirton Steel since...
...Iranian government has inflated its already extravagant demands ever since its army recaptured the Iranian port city of Khorramshahr from Iraqi forces two weeks ago, causing some Iraqi soldiers to attempt to swim across the Shatt al Arab estuary to Iraqi territory. Iran is insisting on the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, payment of enormous reparations by Iraq or its Arab allies, repatriation to Iraq of about 100,000 Iraqi Shi'ite Muslim refugees of Iranian descent, and withdrawal of Iraqi forces from every square foot of Iranian territory. Iran has demanded as much as $150 billion in war reparations...