Word: colorados
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Correspondent Karsten Prager, the trip to the Colorado Rockies in search of Peter Seibert, creator of the Vail skiing complex, reached new heights in participatory journalism. Like other TIME correspondents round the globe, Prager had gone to the mountain to gather material for this week's cover story. Unexpectedly, he found himself an active participant-at 11,250 ft.-in one of the world's fastest-growing sports. Though first put on skis at the age of three, Prager had not set boot to binding for 26 years. His talks with Seibert provided all the inspiration he needed...
While Prager practiced his parallels in Colorado, his fellow reporters were scrutinizing other terrain. Los Angeles Correspondent Sandra Burton, a skier since her Middlebury College days in Vermont a decade ago, visited mountain resorts in New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming and Idaho. In the Northeast, New York Correspondent Marcia Gauger returned to visit some of her own favorite skiing haunts. Gauger, who has had lessons in four languages at ski schools round the world, is a veteran of pulled ligaments, frozen feet and broken bones (foot and leg). When her reporting in Stratton, Vt., was interrupted...
...three players received official notice of the league's refusal last Saturday, although they had learned that the ruling was unfavorable December 9. They were scheduled to leave for Colorado Springs. Colo, this weekend to play in games there and later in Minneapolis, against teams from Canada, Russia and Czechoslovakia...
SAFETIES. Cullen Bryant, Colorado, 6 ft. 1 in., 219 lbs., and Brad VanPelt, Michigan State, 6 ft. 5 in., 221 lbs. The line on Bryant is "powerful, sharp pursuit, a mean cookie." "He can spot a runner five steps," says one scout, and then he will "not only catch him but pound the hell out of him." Versatile is the word for VanPelt. A seven-letter man in three sports, he is tall and tough enough to also be considered as linebacker. Says one scout: "For a big guy he can fly. He's always in the right place...
Many people felt that we the residents of Colorado should have been asked whether or not we wanted the Olympics before Mayor McNichols and company requested them from the I.O.C. This request was, in effect, taxation without representation...