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Harvard skiers faced top national competition in both nordic and alpine events last weekend...
...other Harvard ski action, a nordic team may go to the Hanover (N.H.) Invitational cross-country relays this weekend. Several members of the Harvard alpine team, out practicing on the slopes last night, will race in the Corcoran Cup, a giant slalom race at Waterville Valley this weekend...
This year the team heads north for two days of Alpine and Nordic training at Cannon Mt. and Waterville Valley. Nine team members and two coaches--Buchika and varsity coach Dick Friedman--will race in the Pat Harty Memorial Slalom on Sunday at Waterville...
...hesitate. Is this organizational heresy at the highest level? "I don't quite know," says one of the listeners later. "I think I felt heartened to hear something said merely because it was felt. Still, I did find all that stuff about one's integrity a bit Nordic." Moral: people in this glass house shouldn't throw their inner selves around...
Endowed with typical Lutheran Nordic conservatism, the blond, blue-eyed Finn only slowly adopts the fads of the West. Miniskirts are just now appearing on Helsinki's streets. The Finn's first love remains the sauna bath. More than half a million families have their own private steam rooms, where temperatures rise to 275°F as the bather briskly whips his body with wet birch branches before dashing out and leaping into a frigid lake or snow bank. The sauna is said to develop the quality of sisu-a combination of courage, stamina, tenacity and stubbornness. Sisu...