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...biggest surprise was John Petkevich, an 18-year-old Montanan who was competing in his second Nationals as a senior skater. Still a little ragged in the school figures, he was in fourth place when he glided out for his free-skating routine. To the ringing trumpets of Spanish music, he went through five minutes of dazzling Salchows (jump and forward turn), Lutzes (jump and reverse turn) and flying splits. Then he went off with something he calls "the Bourkey"-an astonishing leap in which he kicks sideways, twirls, arches and floats as if suspended by wires. He decided against...
Parrot, New England Sophomore of the Year in 1966, is a two-time All-Ivy second team selection. The Crimson's most spectacular stickhandler, skater, and scorer, Parrot should be as dangerous at left wing as at his former center slot...
...many novelists are merely tinkering with far-out techniques or grinding out hunks of undigested raw material, Nabokov is an artist who fastidiously constructs intricate plots and dazzling verbal mosaics. He creates books without precedent in form (Pale Fire) or treatment (Lolita). He can also be a clever ice skater, stylishly tracing or following someone else's figures-the Conradian Laughter in the Dark, for example, or the Kafkaesque Invitation to a Beheading...
...Stanislav Gvoth, alias Stan Mikita (the family name of his aunt and uncle in Ontario, with whom he went to live in 1948), is one of the smallest centers in the N.H.L. -and the best. An acrobatic skater and a slick stickhandler who plays on what Chicago Coach Billy Reay calls his "Scooter Line," Mikita was the league's No. 1 scorer (based on goals and assists) for two seasons running before losing the title last year to his teammate Hull. Mikita should have no trouble winning it back this year. Against the Detroit Red Wings last week...
...would gain so much speed as it passed Jupiter that it could reach Saturn in only 2.8 years and Uranus in 5.9 years. A flight launched into a proper trajectory on Nov. 1, 1979, would be picked up by Jupiter's gravity and hurled to Neptune - like a skater at the end of a crack-the-whip line - in only 8.1 years. The scientists also discovered that the outer planets would be so fortuitously positioned that a spacecraft launched on Oct. 7, 1978, could actually make a 8.9-year "grand tour," passing close to Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune...