Word: skaters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they were seeing "a sports exclusive," "a really fantastic shot," and "superb coverage." Nonetheless, it was the picture that told the story, and during the first two days it was mostly a sad tale of the young U.S. hockey team being trounced by the Czech and Swedish teams. U.S. Skater Peggy Fleming cut a fine figure on the ice, but about the only good thing the announcers could say about the U.S. hockey team came during a skirmish with a Czech player: one of the Americans got "a light left jab in there...
...hockey, Captain Jack Garrity has 30 points. Jack Turco, 29, and Kent Parrot, 26. Parrot needs only two more points to become the sixth Harvard player to reach 100 career points. It would be quite a wedding present for the Belmont skater if he gets them against St. Lawrence Saturday; his wedding is on Friday...
...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...