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After lunch, students listen to a speaker or make a field trip. Their most exciting trip: into a coal mine. They also swim, play tennis and badminton. After supper they have discussions (no cuts) on conditions in the Valley, on national problems, on foreign affairs. Wednesday and Saturday evenings are free for square dances, movies, bridge, reading...
Stars of the meet were a team of Hawaiians, coached by ambitious Soichi Sakamoto, a U.S.-born Japanese. The flashiest team seen in the U.S. in many years, Sakamoto's boys include the Brothers Nakamo (Kiyoshi and Bunmei), who learned to swim in the irrigation ditches of the sugar plantation where they worked with their Japanese parents. Last year, at the national U.S. meet, Brother Kiyoshi, a University of Hawaii student, outswam mainland topnotchers in the 440-and 880-yd. free-style events, and Brother Bunmei took the mile...
...game had followed the rules, and the Japanese could reasonably expect a breathing space while Britain and the U.S. pondered their answering move. But the thinking had been done before hand. So fast that it made Tokyo's head swim, President Roosevelt issued an order freezing Japanese assets in the U.S. (see p. 11). A similar British order followed at once...
...were absolute with but single fore and hind legs, and lacking were such details as hooves, eyes, hair and nostrils. But as Aurignacian scratching developed into painting, remarkable sophistication of draftsmanship appeared. In the Montignac group, stiffness of profile has relaxed and action abounds - the beasts run, leap, browse, swim, lie down, chew their cuds. The head of an ancient long-horned cow (see cut) displays an excellent eye and nostril, subtle shading and dappling. To the Paleolithic artist, the more realistic was his picture, the more potent was its magic...
Young Joe Lee lives in a home on Beacon Hill that was built in 1797, but he has spent most of his life helping underprivileged kids in the slums around the Hill. He loves to sail and swim, so to get the pale-faced children in the sun he persuaded Boston authorities to open a public beach on the Charles River Esplanade, taught them to sail in $25 boats that he designed himself...