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Russia's ice hockey team poured in three last-period goals yesterday on its way to a convincing 4 to 0 victory over the United States. The win puts Russia at the head of round-robin competition in the Winter Olympic Games at Cortina...
...Cortina, Italy, Feb 2--Tenley Albright '57 became the first American in history to capture an Olympic gold medal in women's skating, and the second member of the United States team to place first this year's Winter Games here...
Borne north by car and plane, by skier and foot racer, the Olympic torch this week will travel from Rome to the famed ski resort of Cortina d'Ampezzo in the Dolomites. Its arrival will open the seventh Winter Olympics. Even before they began, the games seemed headed for trouble...
...thing, the weather has been bad, i.e., good.* There was an acute snow shortage. Days of bright sunshine softened the ski runs. Slush filled Cortina's streets. Flags of competing nations hung limp in the warm air. As the bobsled run slowly spoiled in the heat, national arguments developed over who should get a chance to practice. Italian Alpine troops were standing by to cart snow from colder slopes...
...Crack Russian Skier Valentina Nabatenko broke her leg while schussing down Cortina's Tofana mountain...