Word: bobsledding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the weather is right, any Lake Placid winter tourist can buy the thrill of a lifetime-a ride down Mt. Van Hoeven-berg's famed bobsled run. He only has to lay down $1.50 and sign a waiver relieving the State of New York* of all responsibility. Since...
Last week, with the two-man and four-man bobsled championships of the world to be decided, the tourists were kept on the sidelines. Hell-for-leathers from three nations-France, Switzerland and the U.S. -used oil and emery-paper to make their sleds even slicker and faster. One of...
Big Bill Casey used his brake for the first time, and the sled ground to a stop, about a city block past the finish line. They made the descent three times more before they pinned down the 1949 four-man bobsled championship. Average time: 1:13.32. Average speed: 46.8 m.p.h...
Nine floats, depicting the various phases of Dewey's life, rolled past the grandstand: Dewey building a bobsled at eleven, riding in a Model T ("College Years"), a climactic float showing him seated in the White House. Young men with burnt cork mustaches impersonated him in his adult years...
¶Sweden's husky Martin Lundstroem, who plowed his way to victory in the 11.2-mile cross-country ski race. Nineteen of the first 20 to finish were Scandinavians; the first U.S. skier came in 65th. ¶t]J Switzerland's Felix Endrich, 26, who zoomed down the...