Word: placid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...embarrassed natives of Lake Placid, N.Y. explained that the weather was really unusual...
...embarrassed natives of Lake Placid, N.Y. explained that the weather was really unusual. With 130 crack skiers on hand last week to compete in the Fédération Internationale de Ski world championships, there just wasn't any snow. Ice-crushing machines crunched away to give...
...Placid's big 65-meter hill an artificial coat of powdered ice-and one jumper broke an arm practicing on the makeshift footing. When the snow finally fell, it was like manna to Norway's prize crew of jumpers...
...Norway. Back at Lake Placid this week, Norway unveiled a new batch of jumpers for the prime show of winter sport: the individual jumping championships. Forty contestants in all sped down the runway, soared off the lip of the tower and jackknifed forward in the long dive into space. When it was all over, Norway had done it again; six of the first eight places had gone to Norwegians. The champ: a 21-year-old Norwegian farmer, Hans Björnstad, who made jumps of 224 and 223 ft. Sixth place went to former U.S. Amateur Champion Artie Devlin...
...another winter world championship, at Cortina d'Ampezzo in Italy's Dolomites, a U.S. four-man bobsled driven by Lake Placid's Stan Benham rumbled down the icy slide in 1:21.03, a new course record, to win by a narrow margin. Runner-up: Switzerland...