"She launched figure skating's modern era," Sports Illustrated ... Fleming took a staid sport that was shackled by its inscrutable compulsory figures and arcane scoring system and, with television ...

Bad news indeed for a nation that had won 21 world figure-skating championships ... weakness had been her tracing of the compulsory, or “school,” figures, a repetitive series of “paragraphs ...

Tenley Albright '57 is almost certain to regain the women's individual figure ... The last two compulsory figures will be completed this morning, and she will give her free skating exhibition ...