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...preparation for the Carnival season, members of the ski squad have been taking hour-and-a-half trips to Pat's Peak in Henniker, N.H., where they train along with other teams at a ski academy under a cooperative coaching system. The Crimson rents floor space in a dormitory at the mountain, which has helped throw the team into debt...

Author: By David A. Wilson, | Title: Crimson Skiers Start Season This Weekend As UVM Hosts First of February Carnivals | 2/2/1979 | See Source »

Despite these problems, Pat's Peak has worked out well for the skiers when they have found the time between exams to make the trek to New Hampshire. The area has a 35-meter jump, about 20 miles of cross-country trails and a mountain with a decent pitch...

Author: By David A. Wilson, | Title: Crimson Skiers Start Season This Weekend As UVM Hosts First of February Carnivals | 2/2/1979 | See Source »

...field of battle remained three corporations - General Sexotics, Cybordelics, and Intercourse International. When the production of these giants was at its peak, sex, from a private amusement, a spectator sport, group gymnastics, a hobby, and a collector's market, turned into a philosophy of civilization. McLuhan, who as a hale and hearty old codger had lived to see these times, argued in his Genitocracy that this precisely was the destiny of mankind from the moment it entered on the path of technology; that even the ancient rowers, chained to the galleys, and the woodsmen of the North with their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Of Microchips and Men | 1/29/1979 | See Source »

...student who asked not to be identified compared the odor to rotten eggs, adding that in his hallway the smell reached its peak on Sunday...

Author: By Eileen M. Smith, | Title: Clogged Sewers Create Odor In Winthrop House Dining Hall | 1/24/1979 | See Source »

...roads, rails and waterways in an effort to starve the city into submission. The U.S. and Britain responded with an unprecedented airlift. Bright C-54s and battered C-47s touched down at West Berlin's Tempelhof Airport at a daytime rate of one every three minutes. At its peak, these allies ferried a record of 12,940 tons of fuel and food in one day during what they called "Operation Vittles." After ten months the Soviets opened the ground corridors to the West again, but Berlin remained an international, and emotionally American, outpost behind the Russian lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: How We Got Here | 1/22/1979 | See Source »

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