Word: skis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). National Tourist Trophy Motorcycle championship from Gardena, Calif.; International Ski Flying championship from Mittendorf, Austria...
...Hobart, a full-time skier, with a time of 89.1 seconds, 2.5 seconds faster than Friedman. "I would have been second in the grand slalom, but I went through a gate backwards," Friedman said. The Crimson coach finished with a time of 1:48.79. Frank Hurt, former Middlebury ski captain, won the grand slaloms...
...ski pros call him "Tiger," and every day for a week he went up the mountain after lunch to shoot "the Slot," one of the toughest runs at Snow-mass-at-Aspen. "Simply magnificent," gloated retired Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, 51, a ski nut who has been using the Aspen ski slopes to unwind after seven crushing years in Washington. In his new job as president of the World Bank, the Tiger will be able to spend about half the year at his chalet in Snowmass, but last week's outing may prove unsurpassable. "This has been...
...Olympic Committee, accosted Colonel Marceau Crespin, France's director of sports, and asked: "I hear that half the skiers on the French team don't live up to our definition of amateurism. Is that true?" Replied Crespin: "You have been misinformed, Monsieur. No one on the French ski team lives up to your definition." Brundage thought the Frenchman was joking...
Last week no one was kidding about Jean-Claude Killy, 24, hero of all France when he swept three Alpine-skiing gold medals at Grenoble. Le Monde, France's most influential newspaper, accused Jean-Claude of selling an exclusive picture story about himself to the weekly magazine Paris Match for $7,000 "after he imprudently offered it before numerous witnesses to the highest bidder." The Communist daily paper L'Humanité followed with another charge: that Killy last year agreed to use a brand of Italian ski poles exclusively in exchange for an unknown sum of money...