Word: squaws
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Similar projects in the past on other subjects have given a broader treatment than could have been provided in black and white. Color photographs of middle-class Mexico (Dec. 8) showed some of the startling social and economic developments changing our neighbor to the south. A spread on Squaw Valley (Feb. 9) provided a breathtaking view of the scene of next winter's Olympics. At the same time, vast and fundamental changes rapidly affecting the whole world have been covered by color spreads on such subjects as space medicine (May 26) and the U.S. atomics industry...
...technique. Instead of jackknifing from the waist as most U.S. skiers do, young Gene adopted the Finnish jumping style of leaning forward from the ankles, found that it cut down wind resistance, gave more horizontal thrust for longer jumps. Fortnight ago in the North American championships at Squaw Valley, Calif., he came within 3.3 points of beating Finland's Kalevi Karkinen. one of the world's best. "We were all amazed," said Norway's top expert, Sigmund Ruud, after watching Kotlarek at the Holmenkollen. "The U.S. has never had a more promising jumper...
...Squaw Valley's Alec Gushing provides a classic example of old-fashioned American capitalism at its best: the selfish motivation of one has provided benefit...
...believe all the pessimistic reports I hear about Squaw Valley and the coming Olympics after reading about Alec Gushing (Feb. 9). He sounds like a snob...
Congratulations. to Mr. Alec Gushing on his wit rather than his memory. It seems that he or someone forgot the prologue to the Squaw Valley drama. Might it not have been more accurate to mention the name of Marti Arrougé, the young Basque who trod the warm earth of Squaw Valley through many young summers following the bands of his father's sheep, who lost his only brother in one of its clear lakes and whose nimble skis have caressed its every slope? It was Arrougé who was the original partner of Wayne Poulsen; together they supplied...