Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
...they will return--after 7000 miles and five slaloms against the best racers in the country in the USSA Western Spring series. As Steele and Carter race against the likes of Bobby Cochran and several just-off-the-World Cup-circuit Europeans at Snoqualmie, Washington, Mt. Hood and Mammoth Mountain, they will likely remember the Harvard Athletic Department fondly, for the men at 60 Boylston St. found enough cash out of special funds to pay for the skiers' air fare...
Dick Cavett. Anthropologist Colin Turnbull, author of the best-selling account of the destruction of traditional values in a tribal culture, "The Mountain People," is Cavett's main guest. CH. 5. 11:30 p.m. Color...
...imagine the delight of U.S. Eastern Amateur Association officials with the results of last weekend's Men's Special Slalom at Sugarloaf Mountain. Their own championship--the final and most important qualifier for the Western Spring Series featuring European competitors off the World Cup circuit and members of the U.S. National Team--was won by the oldest man in the field, 25-year-old coach of the Harvard Ski team, Peter Carter...
...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...