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...McCartan and his U.S. teammates came of age at Squaw Valley. Against the hard-shooting Canadians, Goalie McCartan turned acrobat to stop 39 shots, save the day while his buddies made up for their lack of teamwork by scrap and scramble...
...Squaw Valley last week, Olympic skiers were testing a new racing ski Head has developed to overcome the problem of fluttering at high speeds, which slows the skier. As Head walked the slopes seeking pointers on how to improve his product, he saw dramatic proof of the superiority of metal skis. For the first time in Olympic history a gold medal was won by a skier. Frenchman Jean Vuarnet, wearing metal skis, developed especially by a French firm. For Head this was proof that the metal ski will be as good for racing...
...Raise Oranges." After half an hour of jostling conversation with the Olympians, the Nixons slipped away and walked down an icy path to Squaw Valley's reception center, where a welcome party for them was already blazing up. In front of a huge open fire, Pat paused long enough to take off her coat (with lapels solidly festooned with Olympic buttons pinned on by the eager young athletes) and fur-trimmed galoshes (borrowed for the occasion from her teen-age daughter). Then she headed resolutely for the reception line. A Swedish official in a white sweater kissed her hand...
...signal, Vice President Richard Nixon pronounced the official opening, some 700 athletes craned necks to watch 2,000 pigeons climb for the sky, and the eighth Winter Olympics, born in controversy and sustained at a cost of $13 million, began last week in California's Squaw Valley...
Across the country from Squaw Valley, U.S. track stars put on a dazzling show at the national A.A.U. indoor championships in Manhattan, promising a more impressive showing at the Summer Olympics in Rome. In a single night U.S. athletes shattered three world records...