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...half alive, fought in the streets for scraps of garbage. Plague followed plague: malaria, typhus, influenza, cholera, dysentery, and the dread Black Death itself. Sent to Tiberias by British General Allenby, a Hadassah team found cholera rampant: the townspeople were using Sea of Galilee water to cook with, to swim in, and to bathe their dead...
...first, swimming officials looked for a way to put Farrell on the team anyway - a violation of their own rules that only the first two qualifiers in the trials can make the squad. Admitted Chairman Ray Daughters: "We wanted him badly." Farrell surprised the committee by insisting that he would make the team by swimming or not at all. "I don't deserve any special privileges. I'll swim...
...nights later, grim and pale, Farrell was back to fight for a place on the 800-meter relay team. All he had to do was finish sixth or better in the eight-man field, but no one knew how his stomach would take the long grind. "The more I swim, the more it hurts," he admitted. Coming off the final turn, Farrell poured on his famed finishing sprint, hurt stomach or no, and touched out in fourth place. "I'm very grateful," Farrell said later. "This is the way I wanted to make the team...
...winner, Lance Larson of the Los Angeles Swim Club, defeated Hunter by one second...
...Lynn Burke, 17, a backstroke specialist from Santa Clara Swim Club, who broke two world records on successive days: in the 200-meter backstroke, pushed by Teammate Von Saltza, Lynn hit 2 min. 33.5 sec., a full 3.6 sec. faster than the world mark set by Japan's Satoko Tanaka earlier this year; in the loo-meter backstroke, she clocked an equally astonishing time-1 min. 10.1 sec., knocking nine-tenths of a second from the world mark...