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Norman Albert (7th-meteorology) broke the world record
for treading water Nov. 18 in the Natatorium. After
Record breaker
By A. JOSEPH GROSSMAN
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
"You can take the record away
from me but you cannot take away
the experience," Norman Albert (7th
meteorology), the new holder of the
world endurance record for treading
water, said.
Albert jumped into the diving pool
of the natatorium at noon on N0v.16
and did not stop treading until 4 p.m.
Nov. 18. His 52 hours of treading
water eclipsed the old world record of
50 set by Monte Lewis in Florida.
Albert; who had hoped to tread for
72 hours, says he began to hallucinate
on Friday morning because of
exhaustion. "I would see people and
then they would disappear, and I saw
flower pots lined up along the pool,"
says Albert.
He had to be pulled from the pool on
British playwright dead of bone cancer
HAMILTON, Bermuda (UPI)
British playwright Sir Terence Rattigan
died Wednesday following a lengthy
illness. He was 66.
Rattigan, whose 20 plays included
"Separate Tables," "Ross" and "The
Winslow Boy," had fought a long battle
with bone marrow cancer.
The Oxford-educated dramatist also
later became known as a film writer and
adapted many of his own plays to the
screen as well as writing original screen
plays and adapting other plays to the
cinema.
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an stretcher and spent the next three
hours at Ritenour for observations.
Albert then was sent to the Moun
tainview Unit of Centre Community
Hospital, where he was fed in
travenously throughout the night
because "there were a lot of things
wrong with my blood."
After the record was broken,
Albert's hands and feet were white
and swollen and he had lost 15 pounds.
The temperature of his extremities
dropped below 60 degrees during the
treading, and his overall body tem
perature dropped to 95 degrees, close
to subnormal, according to Albert.
What's it all about? Is Albert really
as unbalanced as his nickname (Abb,
for abnormal) suggests? It seems
there is a method to his madness.
Albert plans to cross the English
Channel next year and needs a
Among his film credits were "Goodbye
Mr. Chips," "The VIPs," "The Yellow
Rolls-Royce," and "Conduct Un
becoming."
Rattigan was born in Kent, June 10;
1911 and attended Harrow before taking
a degree in modern history in Trinity
College, Oxford.
A lifelong bachelor, he turned his
talents to the stage shortly after
,graduating and wrote a comedy called
"First Episode" which was produced in
both London and New York in 1934 and
established his career as a playwright.
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breaking the previous record of 50 hours by two hours,
Albert had to be pulled from the pool on a stretcher.
is hospitalized
sponsor to back him up on the project,
which will cost about $l,OOO, by his
estimate.
He said he hopes the new world
record will catch some potential
sponsor's eye.
If everything works out, Albert
should be crossing the Channel about
this time next year. He said he'will
begin training for the crossing after
Spring Term, swimming from seven
to 10 miles each day.
His other preparations will include
swimming the length of Lake
Champlaine, the longest lake in the
country, and swimming from
Provincetown, Mass. to Plymouth,
Mass. a 25 mile journey. Albert
also wants to gain 30 pounds. He
thinks he will lose about that much
crossing the Channel.
Rattigan was one of a group of young
playwrights who began to turn the
British stage away from light drawing
room comedy into a more sophisticated
and serious era which lasted until the
mid-1950s when the "angry young man"
of social protest took over the stage.
Most of his successes were repeated in
New York . and Rattigan easily adapted
into film-writing for a string of
Hollywood successes.
His plays provided vehicles for some of
the top actors in the United States and
Britain.
Nader raps former aide
WASHINGTON (UPI) A bitter and
disappointed Ralph Nader Wednesday
told his former chief lobbyist she should
resign as National Highway Traffic
Safety administrator because she has
lost her leadership ability and her nerve.
-Nader told ' NHTSA Administrator
Joan Claybrook she has left a "trail of
averted or broken promises" in the eight
months she has held the job.
Miss Claybrook rejected his con
tentions and said she had no intention of
resigning.
"If you are determined to keep your
job at any cost, you can make the public
pay any price," Nader said, implying
her poor performance is responsible for
highway deaths.
"And if the people on those highways
do not receive your prime allegiance
Exchange of prisoners to begin
WASHINGTON (UPI) The United
States and Mexico will begin exchanging
prisoners Dec. 9 to allow the prisoners to
serve their remaining terms in their own
countries, Attorney General Griffin Bell
announced Wednesday.
Some 70 Americans and 38 Mexicans
will be exchanged in a ceremoney at
.Juarez Airport in Mexico City, Bell said,
and, during the next eight days, another
160 to 180 Americans will be returned.
U.S. officials have said many, if not
most, of the Americans to be returned
are imprisoned in Mexico on various
drug charges.
Bell said the returning Americans,
including 40 women, will be taken to the
Federhl Metropolitan Correctional
Center at San Diego, Calif., for initial
processing.
Fifty of the returning Americans are
eligible fOr immediate, mandatory
release under U.S. law. The others, Bell
said, will go to various federal in
stitutions for parole hearings.
The attorney general said the total
number of prisoners eligible for ex
change is not yet known.
Of the Mexicans being returned, 26 are
in federal prisons and the others are in
Texas prisons.
The exchange is being made under a
treaty the two governments signed on
Nov. 25, 1976. •
The Senate ratified the pact and
President Carter signed it into law last
month. It became effective Wednesday.
Bell said about 600 U.S. citizens are
now confined in Mexico, but the 230 to
250 taking part in the initial exchanges
are the'only ones immediately available
for exchange under the new treaty.
The prisoners must apply for transfer
and both countries must agree, he said.
Some prisoners, however, are not
eligible for exchange, including those in
the following categories:
Prisoners convicted of crimes in
Mexico that are not punishable under
I.T.S. law.
Those who had lived in Mexico five
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derstand neither your calling nor your
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professional ethics."
The attack, in an 11-page letter
released to the news media, was Nader's
first serious break with the ad
ministration, and perhaps marked the
end of a honeymoon between the
organized consumer movement and the
administration.
Miss Claybrook, who worked for
Nader for six years and headed
Congress Watch, his congressional
lobbying aim, told a news conference
she does not intend to resign.
"I feel extremely fortunate that this
administration, under President Carter,
has done more than any other in ad-
years before their arrests.
Those with less than six remaining
months to serve.
Persons not yet convicted, or who
Negotiations
NEW YORK (AP) A maverick
union official kept the Baltimore port
virtually shut down Wednesday as dock
workers in Philadelphia, New Orleans
and Baton Rouge voted on the proposed
three-year contract already approved by
most longshoremen at East and Gulf
coast ports.
In Mobile, Ala., the waterfront
situation was in limbo following
rejection of the proposed terms by the
700 longshoremen there in a Tuesday
night vote.
A spokesman for the International
Longshoremen's Association said a local
official in Baltimore pulled his 2,000 men
off the job despite approval' of the con
tract and in defiance of ILA president
Thomai W. "Teddy" Gleason.
Later in the day a federal judge or
dered the Baltimore longshoremen local
to end the day-old wildcat strike.
A rebellious faction among the 4,000
members of the ILA in New Orleans was
pushing for rejection of the proposed
three-year settlement for 50,000 ILA
members at 34 ports from Maine to
Texas.
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If you would like to see someone
creative develop his artistic flair, give
him an art class this Christmas.
The Division of Art and Music
Education at the University has special
holiday gift certificates for Winter Term
art classes open to all ages. Advanced
art education majors will instruct
courses in drawing, painting
We have_your favorite items.
Frank Shorter running . gear
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West Coast dock workers were not!
involved in the strike because they
belong to the independent International
Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's'
Union.
Unknown persons yesterday morning
set off firecrackers on the fifth floor of
Geary Hall, removed a room partition,
and sprayed shaving cream on doors,
University police said. Loss was•set at
$250.
photography, sculpture,
and other arts and crafts.
The classes will start Jan. 7 ' - and
continue for seven Saturdays.
The gift certificates, which include the
names of both giver and receiver, can be
obtained at 270 Chambers or by calling
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she said.
Asked about Nader's charge that she
had lost her nerve and her ability to
lead, she said, "Everyone around here
thinks I'm a tough son of a bitch." Nader
appeared at the news conference and sat
by her side, signing himself in as a
"columnist" representing his weekly
newspaper, Commentary.
In his letter, Nader listed examples of
what he said were failures in her job,
saying, "They etch a trail of averted or
broken promises. They show you un
willing and unable to take command of
your agency.
Their dispute centers on the Trans
portation Department's proposal- to
require the use of airbags or other
automatic passenger restraints in cars.
have appealed their convictions
Persons convicted in Mexico of
immigration, military or political of:
fenses.
disrupt ports
Gleason said opposition to the contract
in the three ports voting Wednesday was
not great enough to upset• Tuesday's
settlement, which all but ended a two-.
month selective strike against container
ship operations on the two coasts.
Crop harvested
in dorm room
University police confiscated 15 to 20
marijuana' plants Tuesday afternoon
from a room in McKean Hall.
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