Word: cracks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...England slopes last winter, it is clear that skiing must now be classified as a mass sport. While the 1960 Olympics at Squaw Valley established America's ski terrain as equal to Europe's best, the 1964 games proved that American skiers were on a par with the crack Europeans. Olympic publicity in 1960 boomed interest in the sport the following winter, and there is every reason to expect the coming season to benefit in the same...
Into the Horseshoe. Clomping slowly down the mile-long track before each of his four runs, he examined the icy surface centimeter by centimeter-looking for any new crack or bump that could cut a precious hundredth of a second from his time, calculating the height at which he would take each of the 16 corners. Then, cautiously, Nash began to feel out the course. Scorning a steering wheel, handling the runner ropes with the iron hands of a jockey, he zipped through the first run in 1 min. 18.49 sec., the second in 1 min. 18.96 sec.-enough...
According to Dr. Othar Zaldastani, of Nichols, Norton and Zaldastani, construction engineers for the complex, the crack is probably due to the malfunction plates" in the footbridge which allow for expansion and contraction of the concrete...
Zaldastani conjectured that either there had been an "imperfect construction joint" or else the plates had frozen, causing the beam to crack...
...representative of Vappi & Co., construction agents for Peabody Terrace, said about the crack. "Maybe it is predictable. I don't know anything about...