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Dave Rand placed in both the jumping and cross country events to wind up third in the Nordic combined competition...

Author: By Bill Ginsberg, | Title: Ski Team Tenth at Middlebury; Three Women Reach Nationals | 2/28/1978 | See Source »

Dave Rand produced Harvard's top of the weekend, copping a third place in the Nordic combined competition. RAnd's 16th place in the jumping combined with his cross-country output resulted in the stellar performance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Skiers Escape Cambridge | 2/13/1978 | See Source »

...socialist, though he was the highest-paid writer of his day-making over $70,000 a year, owning four houses at one time plus a $30,000 ketch named the Snark.* Worse, as a Darwinian, London got his theories of evolution all mixed up with his notions of Nordic supremacy. The white man, he insisted, could stand the cold better than the Indian could, and in the Jack Johnson-Jim Jeffries fight of 1910 he rooted for Jeffries to "wipe the golden smile off the nigger's face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Redskin in the Parlor | 10/10/1977 | See Source »

...clearly bought his wife with his fortune, and the arrival of Schneider's new friend has given Steiger little cause for comfort. Schneider's looks make her suitable for the role of an unfaithful spouse; blonde, slender and very cool, she has infidelity stamped all over her Nordic features. Her chance encounter with the kite-flyer--who is a struggling writer living near Steiger and Schneider on the southern coast of France--soon develops into a full-fledged affair, leading the two lovers to plot the murder of the deteriorating husband...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Whose Hands Are Dirty? | 10/5/1977 | See Source »

...Houston and Bob Kelly will co-captain next year's squad. Houston will lead the Nordic skiers in competition next season while Kelly will head the alpine team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SKI TEAM ELECTS CAPTAINS | 4/30/1977 | See Source »

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