Word: squaw
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gradually, Henk's solitary practice began to take effect. By last February, at the age of 19, Henk had become good enough to finish tenth in the 500-meter sprint at the Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley. The taste of success made him train all the harder. With his own special diet (no onions or fats), he built himself into a wiry 150 lbs. He often got a free hour from his job as an auto mechanic to do some road work, but he needed to practice on ice. Last year Henk took his fiancee and headed...
...after quitting school to join the French national team, he won the junior Alpine championship. "I regret not having continued my studies," he says. "But you can't do everything-and I like what I'm doing just fine." Last year at the Winter Olympics at Squaw Valley, he was considered a strong contender for the slalom but was off form, finishing sixth; in the downhill race, won by Teammate Jean Vuarnet, he did better, winning a bronze medal. One of his problems seemed to be his mental attitude. Admitting that he is "often obsessed by a fear...
...wins mainly because he can fly farther down the slope than anyone else, much to the delight of the crowds of up to 135,000 that turn out to watch Europe's venturesome jumpers. Last February, Recknagel flew off with the gold medal in the Winter Olympics at Squaw Valley with one jump of 306 ft. This season, showing the brand of toughness the Finns call sisu, Recknagel has won central Europe's toughest title with a gigantic jump of 323 ft. at Bischofshofen, Austria, in addition has taken a flock of warmup meets against the Austrians...
...most successful U.S. college recruiter of Canadian talent, Denver's natty Murray Armstrong makes no apologies for the tactic that has won 98 of 140 games, last year turned out a team that beat the Olympic squads of the U.S. (which won a gold medal at Squaw Valley), West Germany and Sweden. A Canadian himself, Coach Armstrong coolly cites the lesson he learned during his career as a National Hockey League player: "The key to success in any athletics is recruiting. You can't make a race horse out of a mule. I simply go where the best...
...United Artists' Gun Fever, a lissome Indian squaw (Actress Jana Davi) forsakes buckskin for buff skin to scamper winningly up a mossy hillside-but only in happier hunting grounds than...