Word: toboggan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). International toboggan championship from the slopes of St. Moritz, Switzerland...
...courts in suburban Winnetka financed by the Arthur C. Nielsens (of ratings fame) and the swish Lake Bluff Bath and Tennis Club, whose ultra-exclusive membership (an applicant must have "good tennis manners and be a nice person") has access to squash courts, an ice-skating rink, sauna and toboggan hill in addition to two quality indoor courts. Even Washington, D.C., minus a single indoor club to its name until last fall, today has two, which furnish a total of six courts...
...than 25% of Khrushchev's precious fertilizer is usually wasted in transit. Shipped in boxcars, the coarse Russian mixture sometimes cakes so hard that it has to be broken loose with picks. Piled outside the station, it often lies forgotten through the winter, serving small boys as a toboggan slope. When a traveler once congratulated a rural stationmaster on the bumper wheat crop pressing in on the tracks, the embarrassed official explained: "First, there was this shipment of fertilizer that never got picked up. Then there was that shipment of seed grain that didn't get delivered. They...
...other nations of the world, and that in many events we are trying to buck others at their own game. For example, these were the first Olympics to have racing on a small sled which the French called a luge, the Germans a rodel and the English a toboggan, which it isn't. Ours was a pickup team of utter greenhorns. It would have been preposterous to expect them to beat racers who have been riding these things since infancy...
...WINTER OLYMPICS (ABC, 9-10 p.m.). Ladies' giant slalom, combined ski jump, and toboggan finals...