Word: sleds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...committee of three (one Communist, one Westerner, one neutral) to take over every major world problem. Why not? smiled Soviet Delegate Georgy Pushkin to the U.S.'s Averell Harriman at the Laos peace talks last week. "Troika means three beautiful horses moving smoothly in stride, pulling a sled." The catch is that the three must be unanimous, thus guaranteeing the Russians a veto at every step...
...Lake Placid's icy, one-mile Olympic run at disaster-begging speed, Italy's Eugenio Monti piloted his bobsled to its fifth straight world two-man title, flashed past the finish line so fast on his last effort (a world-record 1 min. 9.22 sec.) that the sled overshot the braking area, wrapped itself around a tree...
Sneeze in the Dark. His daily life provides plenty of material-like the story about the time his dog sled plunged through a hole in the Yukon ice. "It was bottomless," he recalls as he waves his elbows to show how he tried again and again to crawl out on the ice, only to have another piece break off and dunk him. "We broke through 73 feet that way. Twice I gave up. But life is sweet." Jesuit Llorente has served in various Alaskan missions, including three years north of the Arctic Circle. But his most arduous work began...
...month-old daughter, has built a three-sided log lean-to that fits snugly against his house trailer. A small generator powers his lights, a washing machine and hair clippers. Short of money last month, Sik worked off some of his winter's food bill by sled-hauling drums of gasoline (at $7.50 apiece) across the river, hopes to save enough money to get ten acres of land bulldozed by year's end (Alaska's homesteading laws require clearance of ten acres by the end of the second year, 20 by the end of the third...
Just to show it was no mistake, Monti six days later took the North American championship for two-man sled, this week came from behind to win the four-man sled title and set a new course record...