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...experts in a sport that requires hard selfdiscipline, dedication and diligence. In the group were the brother-and-sister teams of Laurie and William Hickox and Ila and Ray Hadley, the married team of Patricia and Robert Dineen, and Coach Edward Scholdan and his son James. The most famous skaters among them were the three Owens of Winchester, Mass. Maribel Owen, 20, won the national senior pairs championship this year with Figure Skater Dudley Richards (he was there, too). Her sister Laurence (pronounced Lo-rahns), only 16, had won the North American championship for women at Philadelphia only two days...
Died. Laurence Owen, 16, pretty, perseverant U.S. and North American women's champion figure skater; in a jet plane crash that killed 73 people, including Laurence's mother, sister Maribel and the 16 other members of the U.S. figure skating team on its way to the world championships in Czechoslovakia; on a farm near Brussels (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
Almost as soon as Tiros was safely in orbit, two small weights swung out from its rim and slowed its spin from 136 to 12 revolutions per minute. This strikingly simple trick, like a whirling skater slowing his spin by raising his arms, made photography possible. Two beacon radios called out the satellite's position, reported its inside temperatures and the condition of the apparatus on board. Solar cells topped off the batteries. Nine small instruments observed the bearing of the sun, and another reported the position of the earth's horizon...
...down by its girl skiers, the U.S. rested its hopes for individual gold medals on a pair of figure skaters. The confidence was well placed. In the climactic free skating, New York City's blonde Carol Heiss, 20, four-time world champion since she took a silver medal in 1956, flashed a smile that was only a trifle too tight, soared effortlessly through an intricate routine (the show stopper: two successive, whirling leaps taken from alternate skates), and easily won her gold medal to keep a promise made to her dying mother in 1956. Daughter of a baker...
...figure skater. d) A columnist. 88. Died. A 60-year-old author (On the Beach) who once said he would prefer to die "in an aeroplane, since aeroplanes have been the best part of my life"; of a stroke. His name: a) Albert Camus. c) Havelock Ellis...