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In Santa Fe, Argentina, Pedro Candioti plunged into the Paraná River, started swimming 299 mi. to Buenos Aires. Eighty-seven and a half hours later, chilled, exhausted, deserted by the jazz band which had encouraged him most of the way, still 41 mi. from his goal, Pedro Candioti crawled out, claimed a record for endurance.
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