England's moat was back to the ways of peace; the Channel swimmer was on the job again. Last week a 6-ft., 225-lb. Chilean named Jorge Berroeta set out to swim the English Channel. He gulped some of his secret-formula soup, a recipe he hides from his trainer, Georges Michel, who set the Channel record in 1926. Then he plunged into the icy water at Cap Gris Nez, bound for Dover.
Berroeta expected to cross the Channel in eleven hours or less, but after 25 minutes, unable to see Dover's chalk cliffs ahead, he gave it up, promised to try again within ten...
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