Word: mountain
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...dotes on sweets (honey, barley sugar). Unknown when he turned up at the 1960 Olympics, Snell upset Belgium's Roger Moens in the 800-meter run-and set an Olympic record in the process. Ever since, he has trained steadily, runs 100 miles a week over pock-marked mountain trails. Now, when he chooses to run on a track, Snell is the fastest middle-distance runner in the world. Fortnight ago at Wanganui, N.Z., he outdistanced a star-studded international field by 25 yds. and set a world record of 3 min. 54.4 sec. for the mile. Last week...
...Houghton, Mich., dentist, Ferries has been swooshing down snow-covered slopes ever since he was five. "We lived on a hill overlooking the town," he remembers. "It wasn't much of a mountain-just a ridge with a 400-ft. vertical drop. But grandma lived in town, and I used to ski downhill to pick up goodies." Still only a part-time skier, Ferries was good enough at 14 to place ninth in the slalom at the U.S. junior championships. In 1957 he packed off to Aspen, Colo., to polish his technique. He improved so quickly that he decided...
...skier who cannot get away to the mountains, there is now the Ski-Dek Center. Here he can enjoy the pleasures of an ersatz ski trip on an indoor moving mountain, whipped by air-conditioned breezes, inspired by hand-painted alpine scenery-and surrounded by all the comforts of a bowling alley...
Water pipes--The other day some hopeful soul turned on the cold. Clear as a mountain stream, the flow came out at 180 degrees F. The pipes, regrettably, had been run right alongside those containing steam...
Among the unnumbered Americans who suffered last week from sniffles and fevers caused by a variety of viruses, tens of thousands had influenza. The outbreaks skipped across the map from Florida to Missouri and Illinois, over the Continental Divide to the southwestern mountain states, and up the Pacific Coast to remote island villages in Alaska...