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...continued his run?only to veer wildly off across the mountain. Finding his way back to the piste, he resumed once more. Needless to say, he didn't make the cut. It was an apt encapsulation of Asia's performance: doing nothing right, over and over. True, tiny dynamo Hiroyasu Shimizu won silver for the 500-m speedskate, losing to American Casey FitzRandolph by only 0.03 seconds. But Shimizu, on painkillers for a back injury, got gold four years ago in Nagano, when Japan won five gold medals in all. This year it will be lucky...
...wrong side was the defending Olympic champion, and current world-record holder in the event, Hiroyasu Shimizu of Japan. It was a very big day for speedskating in America: not only did FitzRandolph capture the gold, but his teammate Kip Carpenter took the bronze. Three speedskating events down, seven to go, and already the U.S. has three unexpected medals in these Winter Games...
...TUESDAY Picabo Street will begin her comeback in the super-G. Pairs figure skating will conclude. Hiroyasu Shimizu of Japan is a favorite to win the 500-m speed skate...
...kept to themselves. They had plenty to talk about. Across the Pacific the clouds massed darkly. Japan, junior member of the Axis, was talking of war if the U. S. didn't like her idea of running the Orient (see p. 40). What goat-faced Fleet Admiral Prince Hiroyasu Fushimi had up his Oriental sleeve, neither Frank Knox nor Jo Richardson knew. But Frank Knox had talked tough too, had said that "if a fight is forced upon us we shall be ready." At week's end he called up the naval reserve...
Directing the maneuvers on shore was His Imperial Highness Admiral Prince Hiroyasu Fushimi, distant cousin of the Emperor. One day last week it was rumored that H. I. H. had slipped away to sea to take personal command of the last phase. Two days later the tail of a typhoon zigzagged across Japan, leaving 300 dead and more than $9,000,000 of damage, flailing a Japanese flotilla maneuvering off the east coast of Honshu, the Empire's largest island. The furious spiral of wind and water swept 27 officers & men off the destroyer Yugiri, 24 off the destroyer...
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