Word: toralf
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Dates: during 1963-1963
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Nose to Tip. Such jitters apparently never afflict Toralf Engan, 26, a brown-haired, slightly built sporting-goods salesman from Trondheim. Norway. Engan has been skiing since he was three, jumping since he was seven, and outjumping almost everyone for nearly a decade. "When I jump." he says. "I feel like a bird. Birds aren't afraid to fly. Why should...
...Crowds of up to 135,000 turn out to watch him make like a bird. He is a national hero in Norway, where his biography is a bestseller, and in Austria children mimic his style on tiny backyard ski jumps-the one who jumps farthest gets to call himself Toralf Engan all day long...
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