Word: snite
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Whistling softly to remind herself to breathe, svelte U.S. Olympic Skier Betsy Snite, 21, swivel-hipped down the steep, tight trail on Mount Mansfield, completed her two runs a full 4.4 sec. ahead of a topflight Olympic field to win the women's slalom...
...slope on the seat of her pants. Penny ended up a dejected 33rd, and cool Anne Heggtveit was F.I.S. champion. "If I could have stood up, I would have been world champion," shrugged Penny. "But I couldn't stand up." Only consolation: the U.S.'s Betsy Snite finished 3.3 sec. behind Anne to take second in the slalom...
Last Hopes. With that, U.S. prestige rode on the shoulders of Vermont's svelte Betsy Snite, 21, back in form after a knee injury earlier this season and second only to Penny on the proud U.S. team. Hunched low over her skis, cutting corners like a man, Betsy looked the fastest of the day as she shot out of the schuss. Then she hit the bump. The impact slammed her into Airplane's bank so hard that she caught an edge, arched through a double cartwheel, fell on a ski point and lay still...
...skied against the Europeans on even terms last year. She was quick with a smile for any passing photographer, had acquired a prestigious and hovering boy friend in Austria's Egon Zimmermann (who finished second in the men's downhill). With top-flight Teammate Betsy Snite nursing a knee on the sidelines, Penny warmed up with a respectable tie for fourth in the giant slalom...