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...tung likes to swim, and every year millions of Chinese are urged to emulate him. Mao several times has swum the Yangtze, so last spring, 20,000 people made a mass crossing of the same river. In fact, reports the magazine China's Sport, swimming has become an "activity involving millions of all ages, and it has served as a call to hundreds of thousands to forgo swimming pools and take the plunge into the natural and rougher waters of China's many rivers and lakes as well as the open...
...such deceptive simplicity that it has been generally overlooked. Pressure changes in the middle ear, reports Aviation Physiologist Claes E. G. Lundgren in the British Medical Journal, may cause dizziness so severe that the afflicted diver literally does not know which way is up and may swim to the bottom when he wants to head for the surface...
...past 15 years he summered in seclusion at Roquebrune-Cap-Martin-on the French Riviera. There he avoided autograph hunters in a 6-ft. by 15-ft. two-room cabin with a corrugated iron roof. Every day he sketched and exercised. Last week, while taking his twice-daily swim, he was seized by a heart attack and died before anyone could reach...
...A.A.U. championship in Maumee, Ohio, the competitors were so young that in some cases the only way to tell a boy from a girl was by whether the bathing suit had a top. Seattle's Steve Krause, 15, surprised everybody including himself ("I never dreamed that I would swim that fast") when he splashed to a new world record of 16 min. 58.6 sec. in the 1,500-meter freestyle. California's Claudia Kolb, 15, won the women's 100-meter breast stroke, the 200-meter breast stroke and the 200-meter individual medley, topped...
...almost seemed to be a has-been. At the Tokyo Olympics last year, the best she could do was a third in the 400-meter individual medley. "One more year," she said then, and this summer she began commuting daily from her home in Wayne, Pa., to Philadelphia to swim six miles a day under the watchful eye of Coach Mary Kelly. "Martha's a very quiet girl," said Kelly, "but a very determined girl...