Figure Skating
- World Figure Skating Championships –
- Men's champion: Alain Giletti, France
- Ladies' champion: Carol Heiss, United States
- Pair skating champions: Barbara Wagner & Robert Paul, Canada
- Ice dancing champions: Doreen Denny & Courtney Jones, Great Britain
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Famous quotes containing the words figure and/or skating:
“The figure of the enthusiast who has just discovered jogging or a new way to fix tofu can be said to stand or, more accurately, to tremble on the threshold of conversion, as the representative American.”
—Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)
“In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)