Figure Skating
- World Figure Skating Championships:
- Men's champion: David Jenkins, United States
- Ladies' champion: Carol Heiss, United States
- Pair skating champions: Barbara Wagner & Robert Paul, Canada
- Ice dancing champions: June Markham & Courtney Jones, Great Britain
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Famous quotes containing the words figure and/or skating:
“A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey’s gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind.”
—John Cheever (1912–1982)
“In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)