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This past Christmas Jim Bredar and I drove that route to Winter Park Ski Area in his old Toyota Jeep, as he had done hundreds of times before. The sky was overcast and it was freezing inside the jeep because the heater was busted and the windows didn't close all the way. We got to Winter Park around 8:30 a.m.--early, before the lifts started, because Jim was a senior ski patrolman and had to get instructions from the patrol leader before the mountain opened--and I was so numb I wondered if I could...
...cold and so clear that the sight of the Indian Peak mountains to the northeast took your breath away. I skied with Jim and Mary Lyn Chapin and Nancy McKey, both friends of Jim's from the time in high school when he joined the Winter Park Junior Ski Patrol. Mary Lyn was a fast skier, as fast as Jim, and she looked the part, with blonde hair that fell past her shoulders and teeth that dazzled, when she smiled, like the reflecting sunglasses she wore...
...deep shag rug. Jim and Mary Lyn did most of the talking. They talked mainly about the Junior Patrol, to which they had both belonged, and about some of the people on it: Peter Fader, who saved a man's life once, Joe Ward, the hottest skier at Winter Park, and Bob Patterson, the patrol leader before Jim, Jim's best friend on the patrol, and Mary Lyn's lover for a year. Bob is dead now. He died at Colorado General Hospital very early on the morning of June...
...Park deal explains why Hundley, 52, a gregarious Irishman with a Flatbush accent, is beginning to rival Edward Bennett Williams as the capital's top criminal defense attorney. A spiffy dresser who favors loud sports coats, Hundley is on good terms with the Washington press corps. He also can draw on invaluable friendships and expertise accumulated during 16 years as a Justice Department lawyer. His contacts can help him tell where an inquiry is heading, and his experience and instincts help him to detect when a prosecutor is bluffing...
...Bureau (1951-56) who was responsible for a dramatic decline in maternal and infant death rates; of bronchial pneumonia; in Cambridge, Mass. In 1921 Dr. Eliot left her private pediatric practice ("I never felt comfortable about asking for my fees") to study rickets, and along with Dr. Edwards Park of Yale discovered the preventive value of sunshine and cod liver oil. In 1947 she became the first woman to be president of the American Public Health Association...