Word: legging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Three Quick Races. At Grenoble, Killy will need all his skills. The U.S.'s Billy Kidd, fully recovered from a broken leg that kept him out of action last year, is once again skiing with the methodical precision that won him a silver medal in the special slalom at Innsbruck in 1964. Austria's Gerhard Nenning, 27, is going into the Olympics with two straight major downhill victories behind him; Switzerland's Du-meng Giovanoli, 24, and Edi Bruggmann, 24, have both defeated Jean-Claude twice in pre-Olympic slaloms. Yet those were merely warmups...
...invented a character like Lord Byron, he would be set down as an opportunistic fictioneer with an eye on the bestseller list. Byron, after all, was almost too much. He was a good if not great poet; he was handsome; he could swim the Hellespont, even with a game leg; he had affairs with men as well as women including, some believe, his half sister. He was also a political rebel. When he died at 34 in Missolonghi, Greece, he was planning and financing a revolt against the Turkish oppressors...
...expected that South, center Walt Esdale, and Greg Morris would give Cornell enough firepower to cope with any other Ivy. But the 6-8 Esdale has been effectively neutralized by giant centers around the League, and South has been suffering with leg injuries...
...forward turn), Lutzes (jump and reverse turn) and flying splits. Then he went off with something he calls "the Bourkey"-an astonishing leap in which he kicks sideways, twirls, arches and floats as if suspended by wires. He decided against his "triple-flip" turn because of a pulled leg muscle. But the judges had seen enough; they gave him five 5.9s and one 6, good for third place and a slot on the U.S. Olympic team. At Grenoble, says Petkevich, "that triple flip goes back...
...Fitzsimons doctors paid little attention to skin and muscle wounds, covering them with only a light dressing and proceeding immediately to the job of setting the leg and putting on the cast. Within 24 hours, they had the patient on crutches and encouraged him to put as much weight on the broken leg as he could tolerate. This proved to be highly variable. "But," said Colonel Brown, "we did not push if there was pain." One thing that spurred the servicemen on was that they had to be either up and in motion, or lying down with the leg elevated...