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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Skiing has been Killy's life ever since his father, descendant of an Irish mercenary who fought for Napoleon (the family name originally was Kelly), opted for the quiet life in 1946 and moved his family from Paris to Val d'Isere, 6,037 ft. up in the French Alps. Jean-Claude was then three; within a year, he was a familiar figure, with baggy pants and a runny nose, on the slopes outside town. "I would carry my skis to school and rest them against the wall so I could ski at lunchtime," he says. "On Thursday...
...time Killy was eight, he had won his first competition - a jumping contest. A bout with tuberculosis sent him to a sanatorium for four months, but by 14, he was promising enough to be picked for the French team that competed in a junior meet at Cortina d'Ampezzo in Italy. He fell in the slalom at Cortina and suffered the first of two broken legs. "I was quite mad when I was young," he says. "I took too many chances." But he was also learning - developing the power, control and techniques that would make him a world champion...
When Edwards heard that Jim Hines, Texas' world record-holding sprinter, still planned to run, he growled: "I hear he wants to play pro football. Some cats in Texas have personally said they'd fix it so he'd be on sticks if he's crazy enough to run in that meet." Hines withdrew, and so did Olympic High Jumper John Thomas, after receiving telephoned threats...
...Presumably 2,4-D, 2,4,5-T and picloram...
Died. Mae Marsh, 72, early Hollywood heroine, who first starred in D. W. Griffith's 1915 classic, The Birth of a Nation; of a heart attack; in Hermosa Beach, Calif. Mae was only 16 when her auburn-haired beauty caught. Griffith's eye and he signed her to a contract at $3 a day. She moved a generation of moviegoers as Flora, the star-crossed little sister, in Birth of a Nation, went on to become Griffith's always tearful, often tragic leading lady in Intolerance, A Child of the Paris Streets and The White Rose...