Word: wolfe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gambril said he directed Harvard swimmer Tom Wolf earlier this year to train for the Olympics with the Long Beach State College team in California, where he would find "more competition...
...help of some former participants, whom they title "experts." Frank Gifford, ex-New-York-Giants pro football player and connoisseur of Super Bowls, commented on the Olympic downhill race: "Look at all those people flocking to the slopes. You know, this event is the Super Bowl of Austria." Werner Wolf, former small town broadcaster, explained speed skating distances: "This is the 500 meter event--that's about five and a half football fields long." Curt Gowdy, on special leave from NBC's football and baseball coverage as well as a fishing buff, narrated the US vs USSR hockey game...
...flashback to Green in a kitchen fixing a salad. McKay says, "Glynn lifts the weights, while Hilary watches hers." (As if any skater did not work out with weights.) And it was an embarrassing contrast between the women's speed skating and the men's downhill skiing. Henning and Wolf were calling 24 and 27 year old women "girls" while Gifford was titling 20-year-old Franz Klammer the "men's downhill champion...
...anchorman makes is, in ominous tones, "The Russians are favored to win most of the medals here at Innsbruck." Later on, after Bill Koch of Vermont finishes an unexpected second in cross-country skiing, McKay calls it "one of the great days in American athletic history." Then Werner Wolf exults over Sheila Young's record-setting 1500 meter speed skating performance, "This is America's first gold medal." The only consolation is that ABC isn't as bad now as they were at the 1972 Summer Olympics, where they showed a chart every hour or so of the number...
...Logan, trumpets lithium in his book Moodswing (William Morrow and Co.) as the start of a revolution in psychiatry in which drug cures will supersede psychoanalysis and other therapies aimed at emotional change. To the dismay of many Freudians, Fieve said that Freud's classic analysis of the "Wolf Man" was a failure, and that the patient, a severely disturbed Russian aristocrat, could have been cured quickly with lithium...