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Awaits Start Of Channel Swim -- Florence Chadwick dips her feet into the Pacific to test the temperature as she awaits the start, of her attempt to swim from Catalina Island to the San Pedro headlands tonight. She hopes to negotiate the 21 miles in 15 hours to become the first woman to swim the channel. Only one man has ever done it. July 03, 1952. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).