Word: aspens
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...Columbia Ph.D. in 1928, he was delighted when Columbia offered to waive the swimming requirement and gave him a belated B.A. (Adler was later given a pair of red swimming trunks by longtime friends Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Lauder. Lauder and Adler are on the board of the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies.) Acknowledging that it was odd to get a B.A. 55 years after his Ph.D., Adler called the bachelor's a higher degree, "signifying a start in the process of becoming an educated person...
...Aspen that has been nothing but a problem. Now every time Iacocca comes on the screen and invites us "to take our chances," my entire family hollers back, "Any chance is better than the one you gave...
Many dealers, selling a few grams or even an ounce or two a week, are in the business to satisfy their cravings. Fred Kamm, 42, for eight years a user-turned-dealer in coke-laden Aspen, Colo., made deliveries on a motorcycle and carried a telephone beeper to take orders; he also injected two grams a day of the merchandise. Says Margaret, the New York sales woman: "My boyfriend and I would get an ounce and sell off some and use some, but we always used more than we sold...
Billy Kidd, the pre-eminent U.S. skier of the '60s, stood off to the side at Mahre's Aspen victory, marveling, actually chuckling, over how relatively little Mahre appears to value the usual rewards. "Recognition, money, history books," Kidd said, "he doesn't care much about any of that. Only about having fun. He's serious, of course, but not intense. It's incredible that he's this way and this good. Above all, he's an unbelievable athlete...
...meantime, Americans present for this pair's remarkable history were counted in the hundreds, not thousands. In Aspen many shouted their support for Mahre from chair lifts as they floated overhead toward their own peaks. The slopes adjoining the course were streaked with skiers of all levels of ability paying no attention. After the race, Mahre and Stenmark stood together for a time at the base of the mountain, still panting from their runs, Mahre bareheaded, Stenmark wearing an elfin cap topped by a ball of yarn. The ball bounced about slowly...