Word: kayaks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Early in the week, the fastest thing in the world was an Israeli in a kayak in the Aqaba Gulf; by week's end, it was an Arab with his shoes...
...either tour a gold-painted geodesic dome meant to symbolize a nugget, or else pan gold themselves, sourdough-fashion, in chutes from the Chena River; sip cocktails in the "Wheelhouse," a VIP lounge on the superstructure of the old Alaskan stern-wheeler Nenana; view an aboriginal village with Eskimo kayak rides and a Tlingit totem-pole carver at work; or ogle the cancan dancers from an authentic gold-rush...
...place is full of dangerous rocks and swirling eddies; so naturally every time a guide stood up to see what lay ahead, some fun-loving Kennedy would push him overboard. The children organized rattlesnake hunts, and good old Bobby insisted on negotiating most of the run alone in a kayak. But Expedition Leader Don Hatch insisted it was a piece of cake. "The biggest problem," he said, "was keeping Ethel's wig box right side up through the rapids...
...that was long ago, before the two-car family. If the settlers hadn't tried to kill off all the Indians, the U.S. might have done better in canoeing. As it was, a Swede who paddled 3,000 weary kilometers in practice won the 1,000-meter kayak race by 15/100 of a second. In gymnastics, Americans who cheat on pushups could only gape in astonishment as the incredibly graceful Russian girls danced off with the women's-team championship, and Japan's Yukio Endo, 27-poised on the parallel bars as if cast in steel-scored...
Marcia Jones took third in women's kayak singles, and Gloria Perrier and Francine Fox were second in doubles for the two U.S. medals...