Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Having vowed to win the battle or be brought home on their skis, Harvard ski nomads Peter Carter and Ben Steele are finding out the price of being kamikazes in their attempt to crack the big time in the USSA Western Spring series...
Ceauşescu warily refuses to allow Soviet troops into Rumania to hold maneuvers. Rumania's own 200,000-man armed forces are supplemented by a crack division of mountain troops and a defensive network of "patriotic guards"-a civilian militia system that could muster as many as 1,000,000 soldiers in the event of an attack. But Ceauşescu's real hope for survival is that no attack ever comes...
Both Steele, whom Carter feels has proven himself to be the best skier in the East at his best, and his flashy mentor qualified for a crack at world caliber competition Western Spring series which is a string of 8 races in 15 days roughly coinciding with spring break at such racers' nirvanas as Squaw Valley, Mammoth Mountain and Heavenly Valley...
...Washington last week, there were hopes that the horror of Khartoum might induce more Arab states to crack down on terrorist activities throughout the Middle East. As President Nixon put it: "The nation that compromises with the terrorists today could well be destroyed by the terrorists tomorrow...
...factory. Up on the sixth floor I found my old office. The walls were filthy. Had they ever been repainted? To the bafflement of an old man poring over a thick ledger at a desk where mine once was, I vainly searched the walls for a familiar mark or crack. Outside, the lights along the Whangpoo River below were just coming on, but the neon glitter of old Shanghai is gone forever...