Word: reichert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...women's giant slalom, the crisp and speedy skill that won at Oslo for U.S. Housewife Andrea Mead Lawrence was scarcely in evidence. Andy Lawrence wound up in a tie for fourth. Gold medal winner: Germany's chubby Ossi Reichert. CJ Finnish Forest Ranger Veikko Haku-linen won the 3O-kilometer (18 miles, 1,125 yards) cross-country skiing championship, finished in front of Sweden's Six-ten Jernberg and a strong Russian squad that took every place from third to sixth. By week's end unofficial team scores put Russia's first Winter Olympics...
...instead of running for a train, was still following them, their suspicions solidified. At the first street corner, they showed their package to a streetcar supervisor standing by. The supervisor turned it over to some policemen in a prowl-car. The cops put in a call to Fireman Karl Reichert, explosives expert...
...Reichert, ill with the flu, left his bed to help. At police headquarters he turned the keys of his car over to a policeman, "in case something happens to me." In an old air-raid shelter near by, Reichert, assisted by two cops, gingerly opened the parcel and took out Volume L-Z of a standard German encyclopedia. "Hmm," wondered a cop, "why would anyone send the Chancellor an encyclopedia?" A moment later, a blinding flash hurled him to the wall; two hours later, Reichert was dead from the bomb meant for Chancellor Adenauer...
...feat was comparable to a middle-distance runner breaking the world record for the mile by more than seven seconds. Despite her first-heat spill, Andy had become the first U.S. skier ever to win two Olympic gold medals. Her winning margin, over Germany's Ossi Reichert: eight-tenths of a second...
Charles M. McEwen, Jr., Arlington High; Kurt Pollak, Boston English High; Albert Reichert, Roxbury Memorial School; Donald F. Schneiderman, Roxbury Memorial School; Mayer Rubenstein, Chelsea High School; Leo F. McNamara, Jr., Clinton High School; Edward E. Morse, Gardner High School; Robert A. Lemire, Lowell High School; Shahan A. Adrian, Malden High School; Leon Friedman, Malden High School; Allan R. Robinson, Marblehead High; Richard C. Lundin, Medford High School; David M. Whalen, Medford High School; Arthur I. Brown, Jr., Newton High School; Robert G. Funke, North Attleboro High; William F. Pickard, Jr., Quincy High School; Wilmon B. Chipman, Reading High School...