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  1.                                  SonjaΓÇÖs personality and 
  2.                                  figure skating success 
  3.                                  made her one of the most 
  4.                                  popular people in the 
  5.                                  world. Even though the 
  6. Olympics were not yet shown on television, 
  7. newspaper reporters who saw her skate 
  8. and interviewed her wrote stories telling 
  9. how charming and beautiful she was.
  10. Newsreels (movies of news that were shown
  11. in movie theaters before the common use of
  12. television sets in homes) showed her 
  13. graceful and stylish skating and her
  14. glamorous outfits, sometimes trimmed with
  15. fur. On occasion the police had to be called
  16. to control the crowds at places where she
  17. was going to appear.
  18.