Word: snow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...downhill, while U.S. skiers soared birdlike off the bumps, provoking "ahs" from fans (and losing time), the Austrians kept their skis in the snow. Heini Messner, an auto mechanic from Gries am Brenner, won the race - with three other Austrians and a Frenchman strung out behind. The star of the meet was France's Jean Claude Killy, 21, who showed why he is the best slalom skier in the world: cutting the gates so close that his sweater brushed the poles, Killy won both the special slalom and the giant slalom. The best the U.S. could do was third...
This winter, instead of competing in Europe, the Americans stayed home to acclimate themselves to the Rockies' 11,000-ft. altitude, and practice on Vail's dry, powdery snow - quite unlike the hard-packed Alpine surfaces...
...pushing circular puzzles (no straight edges to assemble for frame) in solid colors. Upon opening "Little Red Riding Hood's Hood," the puzzlephile sees nothing but red-506 pieces of it. Or if he prefers white or brown, he can work at two vicious circles teasingly entitled "Snow White Without the Seven Dwarfs" and "CloseUp of the Three Bears." For those overburdened with leisure time, the thrill in working out such finger exercises is the assurance that no deadlier way to kill time has yet been discovered...
...ship was said to have made a soft touchdown on deep snow, with the aid of parachutes. Newspapers described its flaming descent through the atmosphere and discussed the loss of radio contact when an antenna burned off. But all this is normal. It was the long silence after landing that was ominous. Then word came that the cosmonauts were safe; Yuri Gagarin, Russia's space pioneer, talked to them by telephone and reported that "they are completely healthy." Whatever had gone wrong on the last, dangerous trajectory that led back to earth had apparently not detracted from the overall...
...refused to leave a hallway outside Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe's office, protesting segregation in K.U. fraternities and sororities. At the University of Washington in Seattle, students were loudly objecting to forced membership in the student association. At the University of Chicago, 200 students shivered in wind-driven snow on the main quadrangle to sing freedom songs, while coeds threatened a "sleep-out" to protest curfew hours...