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...strike, he discussed with aides some of the issues that will face his administration: the city's $200 million deficit, his plans to streamline the government, appointments to key posts. He even found time to slip away to the City Athletic Club, where he took a swim, did two sets of 20 push-ups and had a steam bath. One of his early goals as mayor is to renovate the gym in city hall-a facility rarely used during previous administrations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Fresh Style at City Hall | 1/14/1966 | See Source »

...best expressed by the formula (3x)Exw (3x)Exy or by (3x)Bx-(3x)Cx. And while the existentialists speak dramatically enough about the condition of man in novels and plays, their philosophical writing is so dense that Brandeis' Henry Aiken complains: "Reading Heidegger is like trying to swim through wet sand." One typical passage of Heidegger's alleged masterwork, Being and Time, reads: "If the Being of everyday Being-with-one-another is already different in principle from pure presence-at-hand-in spite of the fact that it is seemingly close to it ontologically-still less...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: What (If Anything) to Expect from Today's Philosophers | 1/7/1966 | See Source »

...result is a range of materials-silver lamé, brocades and sequins-that never used to be in the swim. Such suits usually come with matching culottes or jackets that can be donned in a jiffy. From pool to poolside cocktails is a quick dab with a towel and a snap of a waistband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashions: Less for Sea Than Seeing | 12/31/1965 | See Source »

Navy's swimmers got their Christmas present two weeks early on Saturday at Annapolis. Harvard's Bill Shrout had a 102 degree fever and could only swim in one event, the 50 yard freestyle, which he lost in mediocre time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Middies Swamp Swimmers, 66-29 | 12/13/1965 | See Source »

...Crimson's sure point-getters, free styler Bill Shrout and butterflyer Neville Hayes, have been bothered by illness this week. Shrout has not practiced for two days. In a meet as close as this one is likely to be, Shrout and Hayes will have to swim extra races. They failed to have enough reserve strength to beat Army; they had best have it against Navy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Middies May Top Harvard In Swimming | 12/11/1965 | See Source »

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