Word: nori
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...convinced that acclimation for longer periods, with standard training schedules, really works. The Russians trained at Alma-Ata (around 10,000 ft.) in Kazakhstan before going to Mexico City in October; now they are building improved Olympic training camps at Yerevan in Armenia. The Japanese have camps on Mount Nori-kura in the 8,000-ft. to 9,000-ft. range. The French are completing an $8,000,000 complex at Font-Romeu (6,100 ft.) in the Pyrenees, and, in a fine display of entente cordiale, they will let the West Germans train there with them...
...tassels, enough feathers for a sparrow's spring plumage, and not much else. Even so, Italy's Gina Lollobrigida was shocked when Hollywood's new Wax Museum unveiled a reclining likeness of her in a black slip hiked up somewhere between navel and knees. "Please, Sig-nori" pleaded La Lollo, "the short slip shows too much Gina." The museum's directors were sympathetic, but they wouldn't dream of tampering with a work of art. The patrons seem to appreciate it, they replied, so the slip stays slipped...