Word: pathways
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...takes in exercising his remarkable strength. And in betting on it.* Stone lifting is a passion among the Basques, and as a youth Urtain never missed a chance to accept a wager. At the age of ten he won 25 pesetas for moving a 175-lb. stone from a pathway; at 14 he acquired a chicken by hefting a 300-lb. stone five straight times. He turned pro at 21 but soon ran out of competition, even though he gave his opponents ever larger handicaps. Barely taxing his 19-in. biceps, he set his official record with...