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...nippy day for swimming but even less auspicious for the cause of white supremacy in Southern Rhodesia. Into Salisbury's Central Baths marched a group of whites, blacks and Asians, deliberately stripped down to bathing attire, and eased themselves into the chilly waters of the traditionally all-white pool. Indignant apartheiders jeered, brandished placards and taunted them ("You're dirtying the water"). One white youth capped it all by shoving the fully clothed white leader of the swim-ins, University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland Lecturer Dr. Terence Ranger, into the water. Nonetheless, Ranger and his followers...
...kind of whole-souled character that let him absorb rebuffs and carry on with total concentration. The son of a Philadelphia teacher of penmanship, he whisked through school so fast that he had an A.B. in 1861 at the age of 17. He loved to hunt, fish, swim, sail and skate, and he was good at all these sports. But he loathed the fusty Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, where pupils spent week after week copying classical statues. To get a firsthand knowledge of anatomy, he took courses at the Jefferson Medical College, for a time even considered becoming...
Terror of Black. To turn students into something more than what Pace calls "finger wigglers," group teachers plunge their students quickly into harmony, ear training, sight reading and improvisation instead of emphasizing recital pieces and finger drills. "It's like teaching a child to swim before he gets afraid of the water," says Pace. "Most children get middle C-itis by playing only a sea of white keys for so long. They're terrified of black keys. They think that any composer who uses sharps and flats is just being mean...
...ideal subject for such an experiment because it has simple kidney and insulin-producing mechanisms that permit researchers to observe sugar changes. To obtain blood samples, the researchers prick each toadfish's tail. To collect urine, they attach balloons to the excretory ducts of the toadfish, let them swim around for several days in a briny tank, take the urine-filled balloons to the laboratories for study...
...vanished 27 years later at the same age. "Let's quietly disappear and start again together," said Jane's perennial fiance, Georgie, in the farewell strip as the couple headed for marriage. At last, Jane was decently clad: not only did she wear a swim suit for her finale, but a sweater as well...