Word: sleds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...movers, in wicker baskets slung on their backs. Some 40,000 cubic meters were dumped on the ski courses; another 20,000 cubic meters were set aside for "emergency withdrawals." Six huge snowmaking machines, imported from the U.S., worked night and day, spraying ice crystals on the bobsled and sled runs. Finally, last week, Austria's own Toni Sailer, who won all three Alpine skiing events at the 1956 Olympics, took a trial run down the men's down hill, pronounced it "fantastic-like out of a test tube"-and all of Innsbruck heaved a mighty sigh...
...Saubert, fully recovered from a touch of the flu, flashed the form that already has won four races this winter. But each day brought new reports of bruises, cuts, twisted muscles and broken bones. And there was worse: trying to negotiate a tricky turn on the ice-coated luge (sled) run, Britain's Kazimierz Skrzypecki, 50, lost control of his flimsy craft and crashed. Rushed to a hospital with a ruptured aorta and fractures of the skull, arm and pelvis, Skrzypecki died 27 hours later-the first fatality in the history of the Winter Olympics. Then, to everyone...
...Sleds & Rugs. Why was he there for the second time in ten months? Easy, said Fidel. For years he had yearned to see Russia's winter wonderland. "I want to see the real hunters in Siberia and see how they live, how they battle with nature and how they prepare their food. It will be very interesting to live among these courageous people." Then it was off to romp in the snow, pose for photographers on a sled and zip down a children's playground slide on a rug. "I want to tell you the same thing...
...What meaning, for instance, did money have for a woman who carried her cash-often only a few crumpled dollar bills-in a handbag tied around her waist? Who avoided taking a bath, probably in order to save soap, and who laboriously extracted "perfectly good nails" from a broken sled and saved them for some vague future use? Who spent half the night looking for a 2? postage stamp she had mislaid? At a time when Hetty maintained a $30 million cash bank balance, she was living in two furnished rooms in Hoboken...
...trial runs were suspended for a day, while the icy run was narrowed for safety's sake. But the rebuilding job did not curb the mounting casualties. A French sled came to grief in the Hexenkessel and skidded down out of control; the brakeman was carted off with a severe brain concussion...