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...many simply got lost in the shuffle. A surprisingly large number of famous first films are missing in America: Sternberg's The Salvation Hunters, De Mille's The Squaw Man, Ford's first feature Straight Shooting and many of Griffith's earliest films, to name...
...brothers Cleary finally got the chance to combine their talents when they sparked the U.S. hockey team to victory in the 1960 winter Olympics at Squaw Valley. There they swept past the mighty Canadian and Russian teams and faced Czechoslavakia in the finals. Trailing the Czechs, 4-3, going into the final period, the Americans exploded for six goals to win the gold medal, 9-4. In their competitive hockey finale the Cleary's went out in style, accounting for three goals and five assists between them...
...become virtually a private French preserve since Coach Honoré Bonnet, 48, a feisty little ex-army officer, took over the team in 1959. Bonnet taught his racers the aerodynamic "oeuf" position that won a gold medal in the downhill for Jean Vuarnet at Squaw Valley in 1960. He dressed them in slick nylon stretch suits instead of baggy trousers and tops, switched them from wood to more maneuverable metal skis, made training an intensive, year-round proposition, stressed strength and speed over the niceties of technique...
...activity is most frantic at Colorado's $13 million Snowmass-at-Aspen, far and away the biggest new winter resort to be developed since Alec Gushing (TIME cover, Feb. 9, 1959) built up Squaw Valley for the 1960 Olympics. At Snowmass, Bill Janss, 49, a millionaire Los Angeles land developer and onetime U.S. Olympic Team skier, has carved out 2,000 acres of slopes with 50 miles of trails and five double-chair lifts on Mount Baldy (13,-162 ft.), which have already matched the ski area of the three nearby mountains served by the town of Aspen proper...
...cannot harmonize: a malleable Mexican driver (Martin Balsam) who has settled for permanent second-string status; Rush's husband, a corrupt Government agent Fredric March); a pair of bickering teenagers; and a wry-and-ginger redhead (Diane Cilento) who wouldn't mind becoming Newman's squaw...