Word: mats
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...Guards Mat Bozek and Greg Williams have played good hustling defense, although the team has been generally weaker defensively than offensively. When on defense the team plays man to man, leaving the more complicated defenses to the varsity, Klug said...
Happy on Anything. But Kurlander is trying again, this time with a flexible, polyethylene plastic called Sno-Mat. It was developed by two Italians three years ago and has been tested successfully at European resorts, including Cortina d'Ampezzo and Tarvisio. Sno-Mat's secret is that it comes in small, interlocking units, each of which looks like a giant pince-nez; they thus hug the contour of the land while presenting no joints to catch the sharp ski edges or the skier's thumb and fingers, should he fall. In addition, the units are covered with thick, round-ended...
...skiers turned up early to try the synthetic surface. They wedeled down the 1,200-ft. slope or slammed through the slalom course. A few even tried the 30-meter jump, which later this month will be used by Olympic hopefuls. Those that tumbled picked themselves up unhurt; Sno-Mat's pliable bristles had cushioned their falls. "Psychologically, Sno-Mat would be better if it were white," said Sven Evenesen, 17. "But I'm happy to ski on anything." Added ex-Olympic Skier Rip McManus, who was coaching the racers, "It's a little slower than snow...
Soviet Imperialism. Despite concerted efforts at persuasion and propaganda, the Soviets so far have only made mat ters worse. The act of invasion was bad enough, but the subsequent rationale for it that the Soviets have evolved is equally alarming to many Communists. Enunciated first by Pravda, the official party newspaper, and later by Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko in a speech at the United Nations, the Soviet Union claims the right to intervene in any Socialist country where the practice and purity of Soviet-style Communism is threatened. Popularly called "the Brezhnev Doctrine," after Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev...
Trying Hard. The speed and scope of the allied response underlined the crucial importance of keeping the Long Tau open. Though airlift supply has achieved remarkable results, 98% of all allied war matériel still enters Viet Nam by sea, and a third of this total is unloaded at Saigon by ships that must run the Long Tau gauntlet...