Names in the News - March 16, 1988
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Soviet swimmer Igor Polyansky set a world record in the 100-meter backstroke in Moscow with a time of 55.17 seconds, two-hundredths of a second faster than the existing mark set by Rick Carey of the United States almost five years ago.
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