Word: sleds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Scorning a steering wheel, handling the runner ropes with the iron hands of a jockey, he zipped through the first run in 1 min. 18.49 sec., the second in 1 min. 18.96 sec.-enough to give him a ⅓sec. lead over Rinaldo Ruatti in the No. 1 Italian sled...
...Stalingrad the previous year. Werth is at his best in eyewitness accounts of Leningrad or of his tour (in -40° C. weather) through the Stalingrad area just after the mop-up there. The item about Russian children using the stiffly frozen body of a German soldier as a sled makes a one-sentence summary of the horror...
...whereabouts is a Statue of Liberty in the harbor-and tries to open a coffeehouse. He finds a promising firetrap on Bleecker Street, signs a lease that looks like a Dead Sea Scroll, and begins to clear out the debris, among which he uncovers Citizen Kane's sled, in scribed "Rosebud...
...forget that in the Olympics it is America against all the other nations of the world, and that in many events we are trying to buck others at their own game. For example, these were the first Olympics to have racing on a small sled which the French called a luge, the Germans a rodel and the English a toboggan, which it isn't. Ours was a pickup team of utter greenhorns. It would have been preposterous to expect them to beat racers who have been riding these things since infancy...
...ROBIN DIXON had all kinds of trouble: first, they broke an axle, had to borrow a replacement from Italy's eight-time world champion, Eugenio Monti. Then, zooming down Igls' hairy, ice-coated run at better than 60 m.p.h., the Britons suddenly lost control of their sled, narrowly missed shooting off the course. They still won-giving Britain its first Winter Olympics gold medal since 1952. The generous Monti finished third...