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...Lichty" Lichtenberger, onetime choir boy, football player and still a devoted Milwaukee Braves fan, holds a solid middle ground between high and low church. He is also known as a wheel in the ecumenical movement. When he heard of his election in Miami Beach, Bishop Lichtenberger went for a swim and wryly told his wife that he would like to keep right on swimming-east. Was he reluctant to take up his new post? "Yes. This is not a thing one chooses...
...aggressiveness into a $5 billion empire (Union Pacific Railroad, Wells-Fargo Express Co., etc.), died in 1909, and left about $100 million to his wife and five children. Averell grew up at the zoo-room family mansion located on 20,000 acres near Arden, N.Y., learned to ride, shoot, swim, row, and play polo, prepped at fashionable Groton (average student), graduated from Yale (B.A. '13), was a bridge player (very good) and oarsman (topnotch). In 1921 he formed an investment banking firm with his brother Roland (who is still a Republican). His reported personal fortune: between...
...that swamped with eight Chinese, Japanese and Korean newsmen aboard in a high sea off Quemoy's Liaolo Beach. At week's end the Chinese Nationalists listed him as missing. Newsman Choi's last words before going over the side: "I can't swim very well...
...Swim By Instrument. In the narrow Bering Straits between Alaska and Soviet Siberia, Nautilus kept well within U.S. waters, popped up its radar antenna only once for about 30 seconds to take a radar fix. Did the Russians detect them? Anderson thought not. Detouring along Alaska's northern coast to avoid clogged-up ice, Nautilus surfaced for the first time since Pearl Harbor to get a sure fix on a DEW-line radar station, then headed down again into the fantastic beneath-the-sea new world of mountains and deeps that is the nuclear submarine's true element...
Chris first turned out for competitive swimming three years ago. George Haines, coach of the high-rated Santa Clara Swim Club, gave her a cursory look and ordered some laps in the pool. Haines checked back later, found Chris had done 115 laps, went to work at making her a champion. Haines was satisfied with her powerful kick, but worked long hours to strengthen her arm and shoulder muscles, taught her a high recovery stroke for greater power. In her basement at home, Chris wrestled doggedly with pulleys and weights...