Word: squaws
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...grueling, 61 -game schedule (the National Hockey League regular season schedule is only 80 games). Coach Herb Brooks' team is a long shot, especially in the face of a superb Soviet squad, for the first hockey gold medal since the 1960 team pulled its stunning upset in the Squaw Valley Games (see box page 83). But the team could surprise everyone with its hybrid style, matching traditional North American aggressiveness with European finesse. ("Sophisticated pond hockey," Brooks calls it.) Against a variety of college, N.H.L. and foreign national teams, the Americans have so far won 41 games, tied three...
...Squaw Valley: the very name was enough to unhinge the venerable geezers In the international Olympic movement 20 years ago. It simultaneously evoked the worst of California and the wild West, the depravity of Tinseltown and the dangers of the untamed frontier. When the remote resort in the Sierra Nevada was chosen as host of the 1960 Winter Games, one French official fretted: "How are we going to put our young men and women to bed at an early hour if there's a chorus line and Frankie Sinatra singing across the road...
...turned out, a terrific blizzard struck Squaw Valley just before the Games. No Gauls perished in the snow, despite the .fears of the French skiing official, but whether they made bed check is another matter (Sinatra was not there, but Danny Kaye and Red Skelton were...
...qualms, Squaw Valley, the last Winter Olympics held in the U.S., proved a rousing success. Except for the cross-country races, all the events were within walking distance of each other, giving the place an intimacy absent in most Olympics. In retrospect, Squaw Valley seems less commercial, truer to Olympic ideals, almost quaint. "It was the last of the small Olympics," says Penny Pitou, a U.S. skier who won two silver medals...
...amateur career that has spanned four decades, Cleary has put his cherry-colored act in some big places. Like the 1955 Beanpot finals, when he scored the winning goal in overtime that gave Harvard a 5-4 win over B.C. Or the 1960 Olympic Games in Squaw Valley, California, when he and brother Bob led the U.S. to upset victories over Canada, the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia on the way to a gold medal...