Word: placidness
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...selection committee for the world team apparently believed that Allen deserved a chance to compete in the world competition, where he finished fifth last year. He will train strenuously at Lake Placid. N.Y. until leaving for the world tournament training camp at Villar, Switzerland, next month...
...expect to finish among the top five," he said yesterday as he prepared to leave for Lake Placid...
...Olympic trials consist of three races. The first, a 15-kilometer race, was held yesterday in sub-zero weather at Putney. Another race over a 30-kilometer course is scheduled for tomorrow. The final race will be held next week at Lake Placid...
...state of scholarship at most Negro colleges has generally been so low and the students traditionally so placid that the schools have rarely rated any kind of national notice. One exception is Louisiana's Grambling College, which has long had a reputation as one of the nation's most prolific producers of big-time athletes. But the demanding new mood of Negro students is no longer satisfied with athletic fame. Grambling student leaders recently shattered the serenity of the piney-woods campus in such a forceful protest over what they call "a second-rate atmosphere for learning" that...
...blocks are rapidly giving way to trim slabs of concrete. Just a few feet away, workmen are busily dismantling the forbidding old wooden watchtowers and replacing them with neat rectangular structures that look more like mountaintop tourist lookouts than machine-gun nests. At first glance, the scene is strangely placid; Western visitors can hardly believe that they are at the edge of Berlin's infamous Wall...