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...enough to tie a Norwegian and another Russian. Then a stocky apprentice barber from Essexville, Mich., set off in a pair of borrowed skates. Body crooked forward ("sitting down over his skates," experts call it), arms and legs pumping rhythmically, Richard ("Terry") McDermott, 23, slashed through the straightaway, around the turn, and across the finish line in 40.1 sec.-giving the U.S. its first gold medal and an Olympic record to boot...
...second run," she said-and onlookers gasped as she zipped through the 52 gates in the fastest time of the day, only to be disqualified for missing a gate. That was just a tune-up. Next day, in the giant slalom-a combination slalom and downhill that demands sheer straightaway speed as well as maneuverability-Jean snowed everybody under. Purists noted that her skis were too far apart and not quite parallel as she swooshed through the gates. But they could hardly fault the results: paying no attention to the ice, pumping furiously to get more speed, flipping through...
...turn going into the last straightaway, Ogden whissed past several Providence men to finish a strong sixth, and Allen came on to wind up eleventh. Had both men stayed in the pack, the Friars would have won the meet, but their comebacks gave Harvard a 24-32 victory...
Meehan, running with both ankles heavily padded to protect his sore Achilles tendons, outkicked Brown in the last hundred-yard straightaway to win by two seconds. Crain was fourth, nine seconds behind Brown...
...Obvious. That is a view few seem likely to get. The starter's flag had barely fluttered at last week's 273-mile Grand Prix of France before Clark's green-and-yellow Lotus shot into the lead. Roaring down Reims's long straightaway at 180 m.p.h., Clark set a new lap record of 131.147 m.p.h., and coasted across the finish line more than 1 min. ahead. The victory, Clark's third in 22 days, ran his season's point total to 27,* and gave him a virtual hammerlock on the 1963 Grand Prix...