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...skier who cannot get away to the mountains, there is now the Ski-Dek Center. Here he can enjoy the pleasures of an ersatz ski trip on an indoor moving mountain, whipped by air-conditioned breezes, inspired by hand-painted alpine scenery-and surrounded by all the comforts of a bowling alley...
...Dek operates like a huge, carpeted Escalator without steps. An upward-moving belt covered with a rug of white Caprolan fiber makes a ski area approximately 20 ft. by 55 ft. Wearing 30-in. "shortee" skis, the skier pushes off from the top of the platform, makes headway against the moving belt, which literally pulls the rug out from under him at speeds that can vary to simulate different slopes and snow conditions. The pile in the rug is thick enough to act something like snow, permitting the skier to execute all the standard turns...
...Benjamin Dek. Wood, associate professor of Educational Research, Columbia University, as consultant to the Grant Study in the Department of Bygiene; Ph.D. Columbia...
...weeks I tortured my investigators by refusing to confess!" sneered the Monkey, thus openly hinting third-degree methods by the Ogpu - and yet Karl Ra dek got away with all his impudence while 13 others got Death...
Doubles--N. W. Niles and A. Sweetser (H.) defeated H. H. Bundy and R. A. Holden (Y.), 6-1, 4-6, 6-3; G. C. Adams and F. H. Burr (H.) defeated P. H. Converse and N. C. Stevens (Y.), 6-0, 6-4; B. G. Bliss and J. DeK. Bowen (Y.) defeated R. H. Eggleston, Jr., and H. Nickerson...