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...think I lost about a half a second on each run due to mistakes," said Steele. "Near the middle of the first run, I caught an edge and got off the line, so I had to make a jam turn to get back in the course and had to jump around the next gate pole. Near the finish, as the course flattened out, I lost some more time over-edging...

Author: By Timothy Carlson, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Steele Skis for Eighth Place In NCAA Middlebury Slalom | 3/9/1973 | See Source »

...wares in the huge, open, hillside market, as well as an occasional cockfight, provide other sights rarely seen by Americans. The marketplace is sometimes enlivened by a "ra-ra," a spontaneous celebration that frequently occurs in the spring when people don colorful costumes and engage in impromptu jam sessions with "vaccins"-flutelike instruments made from bamboo. One other side trip-to Cap Haitien on the northern coast-is almost worth traversing the particularly bad roads or risking the frequently canceled air trip. Once there, tourists can take a two-hour horseback ride up La Ferriere mountain to visit the ruins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Haiti: New Island in the Sun | 1/29/1973 | See Source »

...after all, has ever seen a traffic jam under purple skies and whiplash rain--while a lone white stallion threads through the maddened crush--and an empty rocking chair balances a spread umbrella--and on the roadside an enormous pahllic stone keeps company to a vast vaginal entrances--and a movie crew dangles precariously from a careening crane--all culminating in a thousand car jigsaw squeeze outside the Colleseum exploding with volcanic glare...

Author: By Michart Levenson, | Title: Actors, Actresses, Whore and Catholics | 1/15/1973 | See Source »

...with its neighbors. Only a generation ago, Spanish girls were not allowed out without duennas; today they roam alone in miniskirts on the street and bikinis on the beach. Some working-class families, for the first time have telephones, refrigerators and TVs, and every sizable city has a traffic jam. Spaniards, in short, are changing far more quickly and easily than their institutions, which are showing increasing strains. Items...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: The Unsolved Problems of Succession | 12/11/1972 | See Source »

CARPENTER CENTER EXHIBITION HALL. Form From Nature. Dec. 12-Jam. 30, 1-6 p.m. daily, closed Mondays...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: exhibits | 12/7/1972 | See Source »

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