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Reasonable Facsimile. In St. John, N.B., five-year-old Richard Irvine fell off a pier, was rescued by his 65-year-old grandmother, who jumped right in after him, then gaspingly explained: "I never thought what I was doing. ... I can't swim...
...Power of Advertising. In Chillicothe, Mo., at least one inhabitant-a young athlete pictured on a billboard poster-appeared to be enjoying the floods; after a long, dry practice session, he finally got in the swim...
Heavy Weather. In Belle Isle, Mich., Motorist Kenneth Blue concluded that the rain was getting much too heavy when his wiper failed to keep water off the windshield, stepped out to investigate, had to swim ashore from the 10 ft. deep lagoon into which he had driven...
...heart ailments are those due to bloodclotting, e.g., coronary thrombosis. For reasons not yet perfectly understood (too little exercise, poor metabolism, infection), blood cells sometimes begin to stick together to form a thrombus (a stationary clot). But the thrombus grows, may eventually let loose daughter clots (emboli) which swim on to lodge at vital bottlenecks in the blood stream. A thrombus which lodges in a coronary (heart) artery, blocking off the blood supply to the heart muscle, can kill within a few minutes; a clot in the brain causes a stroke...
This afternoon's parade marks one of the highlights in a crowded, four-day program of festivities which began Monday with softball at Soldiers Field, tours of the University and a noonday swim at the Indoor Athletic Building Pool, and which will wind up tomorrow afternoon with a farewell tea at Eliot House...