Word: skying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...curious cosmopolite could learn a lot from last week's ninth Winter Olympics at Innsbruck, Austria. American women have too many teeth, for instance. Russian women have too many muscles. American men are lousy street fighters. Russians ski uphill better than down. Austrians and Frenchmen ski downhill better than anyone. And, above all, for goodness' sake never argue with an Austrian...
Trigger-tempered troopers mauled women spectators, roughed up the French ski coach, hustled newsmen off to the jug for nothing more serious than asking stupid questions. They really mussed up the hairdos of three inebriated U.S. Olympians who borrowed the car of a French sweater manufacturer (without telling him), drove it the wrong way down a one-way street (without a license), and had the bad sense to shout "Dirty Nazi swine!" when they got arrested...
...meters, Speed Skater Ants Antson, 25, hurled himself bodily across the finish line-and slid headfirst into a snowbank. Claudia Boyarskikh, 24, a sturdy Siberian schoolteacher, led a 1-2-3 sweep in the grueling women's 10,000-meter cross-country ski race, also won the 5,000 meters, collected still a third gold medal as anchor woman on the victorious 15-kilometer relay team. Vladimir Melanin, described as "a 30-year-old student," coolly plinked 20 straight bull's-eyes (at ranges up to 273 yds.) to win the biathlon-an oddly militaristic combination of cross...
...than the course record, American joy knew no bounds. But Germany's Ludwig Leitner clocked 2 min. 19.67 sec., and France's Leo Lacroix cut almost a second off that. Then, high above the tree line a grinning, brown-haired Austrian stabbed at the snow with his ski poles and began...
...With only one jumper still left on the hill, Norway's Toralf Engan seemed to have the 70-meter ski jump all sewed up. But the last jumper had other ideas: arms pressed tight along his sides, nose almost touching the tips of his skis, Finland's VEIKKO KANKKONEN soared 259 ft. 2 in., landed soft as a feather to score 229.9 points and edge Engan by 3.6 points...