Word: slaloming
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...giant slalom held Friday morning, the Crimson earned 37 points. Alpine Captain Dick Raines was first for the team with a 26th place. Eric Jewitt was close behind in 27th. Falling midway through the course; Peter Anton finished 53rd...
...Crimson skiers excelled in the giant slalom on Friday as Raines eked out first place by a third of a second. Eric Jewett took third and Alan Hale seventh to put Harvard in first place with 91 points after one event...
...Saturday the Crimson dominated in the slalom, as it took four out of the top seven places. Jewett again captured third, while Hale and Raines were fifth and sixth. Peter Anton's seventh place showing could not even be counted because of a three-men-per-team placing rule...
There were plenty of medals to go around. In the men's giant slalom, Switzerland preserved its skiing pride with a gold and silver from Heini Hemmi, 27, and Ernst Good, 26. The Canadians picked up a surprising gold medal when Kathy Kreiner, 18, won the women's giant slalom. Britain won its only medal in figure skating-but it was an elegant one. Transforming Olympic Stadium into a stage for his lyrical ballet on ice, John Curry, 26, won the men's figure-skating title with as smooth and expressive a free-style exhibition...
...Rosi Mittermaier, 25, was irrepressibly herself, a born crowd pleaser with her infectious smile and constant giggles. In her first race, the downhill, she was expected to win nothing but came in at lightning speed for her first victory ever in a downhill. Three days later, in the slalom, she cut around the gate with surgical precision on courses so icy that only 19 of 42 starters finished both runs. Said Mittermaier: "I thought the tracks were just beautiful." After the race, she needed an escort of 20 policemen to get her through the crowd. The crush was even worse...