Word: luge
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There was nothing nostalgic about what happened in the ladies' luge competition: a clear case of cheating-and stupid cheating at that. Ranking first, second and fourth going into the final run, a trio of East German women tried for a little extra edge by illegally heating the runners of their sleds. They were caught and disqualified...
...years leveled his pen at everyone on his right from John Foster Dulles, whom he showed brandishing H-bombs, to Tory Harold Macmillan, whom he drew as the winged "Supermac," and Charles de Gaulle, whom he captioned with the famed inverted quotation, "Après le déluge-moil"; of as yet undetermined causes; in London...
Standing under an umbrella in a rainstorm, up to his knees in water, le grand Charles shouts: "Après le déluge...
...that in the Olympics it is America against all the other nations of the world, and that in many events we are trying to buck others at their own game. For example, these were the first Olympics to have racing on a small sled which the French called a luge, the Germans a rodel and the English a toboggan, which it isn't. Ours was a pickup team of utter greenhorns. It would have been preposterous to expect them to beat racers who have been riding these things since infancy...
...Jean Saubert, fully recovered from a touch of the flu, flashed the form that already has won four races this winter. But each day brought new reports of bruises, cuts, twisted muscles and broken bones. And there was worse: trying to negotiate a tricky turn on the ice-coated luge (sled) run, Britain's Kazimierz Skrzypecki, 50, lost control of his flimsy craft and crashed. Rushed to a hospital with a ruptured aorta and fractures of the skull, arm and pelvis, Skrzypecki died 27 hours later-the first fatality in the history of the Winter Olympics. Then, to everyone...