CALIFORNIA, HERE WE COME
After 28 years, the Winter Olympics return to the United States IGHT="9" VALIGN="MIDDLE">BUT WHAT ABOUT THE BOB?
n a budget-cutting move, organizers refuse to build a bobsled track, citing the fact that only nine nations planned to enter the event. It marks the only time that bobsled is missing from the Winter Games.
MICKEY MOUSE AFFAIRS
The chairman of the Pageantry Committee overseeing the opening and closing ceremonies is Walt Disney, who only a few years earlier had opened up an amusement park in Anaheim called Disneyland.
LEAVING NO PRINTS
For the athletes and officials arriving for the 1960 Games, the U.S. government waives the fingerprinting required of all foreign visitors.
SNOW JOB
No snow was Squaw Valleyo a much-needed blizzard just as the Olympics were to begin. Locals credited the abundant flurries to the performance of a Piute Indian snow dance on the eve of the opening ceremonies.
UNDERDOG U.S.
The United States upsets the international ice hockey troika of Canada (2-1), Russia (3-2) and Czechoslovakia (9-4) in its final three games as the Americans capture their first-ever gold medal in the sport.
STEPPING UP TO THE GOLD
American figure skaters Carol Heiss and David Jenkins improve on their medal performances from four years earlier efforts in the women0 and with Soviet teammate Yuri Mikhailov four years earlier.
QUITE AN INTRODUCTION
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TOP AMERICAN
Penny Pitou, a 19-year-old alpine skier, collects silver medals in the womency of apartheid, the nation subsequently is banned until 1994.
OUTDISTANCING THE COMPETITION
In the men
