Word: squaws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recreation hut in Squaw Valley's Olympic Village was a wall-to-wall mob scene of vividly dressed, ruddy-cheeked young athletes, gathered there from 30 countries for the 1960 Winter Olympics. In their midst a smiling, fragile-looking woman in a ruby-red suit and a black topcoat struggled to keep her footing. As two waves of muscular young men converged on her, someone called out: "Can you breathe?" Breathing hard, the Second Lady of the Land nodded, finally succeeded, by holding her pen at chin level, in writing her autograph for an eager French athlete...
...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...
...Winter Olympics (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). The opening ceremonies at Squaw Valley. The network will stay on hand, taping the competition and transmitting shows at appropriate times until the games...
...Valley, d) Squaw Valley, Calif...