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Thus it was late November and I had visions of a whole season's snow going to waste on the other members of my family. Something had to be done, and that something turned out to be a pair of cross-country skis, some Bonna boots, and bamboo poles. Even before stepping out into the cold, cross-country skiing has a lot to recommend...

Author: By Grover G. Norquist, | Title: Why Ski Cross-Country? | 12/13/1976 | See Source »

Thus it was late November and I had visions of a whole season's snow going to waste on the other members of my family. Something had to be done, and that something turned out to be a pair of cross-country skis, some Bonna boots, and bamboo poles. Even before stepping out into the cold, cross-country skiing has a lot to recommend...

Author: By Grover G. Norquist, | Title: Switch to Cross-Country | 12/8/1975 | See Source »

...city's antipathy to outsiders dates back to Roman times, when a legion garrisoned in "Bonna" was decimated by the warlike Batavi. Today local resentment manifests itself in Bonn's constant fight to keep the government from taking over existing buildings or precious real estate. Recently, with bipartisan backing, Bundestag President Eugen Gerstenmaier disclosed plans for a new parliamentary center on the Rhine, consisting of a 25-story office building for Deputies, a twelve-story hotel and an 18-story press center, as well as a series of bridges across the railroad tracks. Bonn's burghers protested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: C'est Si Bonn | 5/29/1964 | See Source »

...jumping Thams, Bonna and Haug of Norway were awarded the first three places, with Anders Haugen of Minneapolis, fourth, for America. Haugen's jump of 50 metres was from 1 to 5½ metres longer than that of any of the three Norwegians, but the judges placed them ahead of him on the ground that their form was superior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chamonix | 2/11/1924 | See Source »

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