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...tragic: "A Sabena Airlines Boeing 707 crashed near the Brussels Airport early today, killing 73 persons, including the 18 members of the United States figure-skating team." The news from Davos, Switzerland, last week still echoed that grim day. Scotty Allen, the U.S.'s No. 1 male skater, finished fourth at the 1966 world championships. The top American pair wound up third, the best U.S. dance team placed second behind a couple of Britons. Bad news indeed for a nation that had won 21 world figure-skating championships in 13 years before the 1961 crash - and not a single...
...skater was still waiting her turn: Peggy Fleming, 17, a diminutive (5 ft. 4 in., 108 lbs.) high school senior from Colorado Springs. Shy and a homebody, daughter of an itinerant newspaper pressman, Peggy did not even learn to skate until she was nine. When she won her first (of three) U.S. championship in 1964, experts were as impressed by her girlish grace and pleasant looks as by her acrobatics and technique. "Peggy is not a fiery skater," said Dick Button. "She is a delicate lady on the ice." And at Davos, it figured to take more than delicacy...
School Is a Ritual. In the past, Peggy's main weakness had been her tracing of the compulsory, or "school," figures, a repetitive series of "paragraphs," "rockers" and "counters" that comprises 60% of a figure skater's score (v. 40% for free skating). Davos' 5,500-seat stadium was virtually empty last week as the skaters went through the exacting ritual, tracing and retracing each figure while judges got down on their hands and knees to search for the slightest bulge in a circle or the telltale double line that proved a competitor had used (heaven forbid...
...oceans. The mass of ice near the earth's axis of rotation is reduced, and the amount of water in the oceans (which are farther from the axis) is increased. As a result, the earth's moment of inertia becomes greater and-like a twirling ice skater who moves his arms out from his body -its speed of rotation decreases...
...Chicago Black Hawks' Bobby Hull has been called the "perfect muscular mesomorph." He is the National Hockey League's Most Valuable Player, its fastest skater (upward of 23 m.p.h.) and hardest shooter (his lefthanded slap shot rockets toward the net at 118 m.p.h.). Goalies complain that getting in the way of a Bobby Hull shot is "like being slugged with a sledge hammer," and practically everybody agrees with Montreal's Claude Provost that Hull is "the strongest guy in hockey." He even looks mean when he smiles, because he is missing his three front teeth...