Word: prager
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Correspondent Karsten Prager, the trip to the Colorado Rockies in search of Peter Seibert, creator of the Vail skiing complex, reached new heights in participatory journalism. Like other TIME correspondents round the globe, Prager had gone to the mountain to gather material for this week's cover story. Unexpectedly, he found himself an active participant-at 11,250 ft.-in one of the world's fastest-growing sports. Though first put on skis at the age of three, Prager had not set boot to binding for 26 years. His talks with Seibert provided all the inspiration he needed...
...While Prager practiced his parallels in Colorado, his fellow reporters were scrutinizing other terrain. Los Angeles Correspondent Sandra Burton, a skier since her Middlebury College days in Vermont a decade ago, visited mountain resorts in New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming and Idaho. In the Northeast, New York Correspondent Marcia Gauger returned to visit some of her own favorite skiing haunts. Gauger, who has had lessons in four languages at ski schools round the world, is a veteran of pulled ligaments, frozen feet and broken bones (foot and leg). When her reporting in Stratton, Vt., was interrupted...
...Prager, his 26-year hiatus has come to an end. "Day after Christmas," he vows, "I'm taking the family to the Sierras for a couple of days. I'll make advanced beginner...
...that he plays an occasional but enthusiastic leftfield for TIME'S softball team may or may not have helped; the team bears a certain resemblance to the Mets in their earliest days. For a close-up view of the Bench personality these days, Goodman relied on Correspondent Karsten Prager, who traveled with the catcher last week...
...Prager caught up with Bench in San Francisco before a game with the Giants. The two met during batting practice, again on the Reds' chartered plane en route to San Diego, and finally talked at length in Bench's hotel room. The last interview was interrupted briefly when Bench pulled out a pair of binoculars to examine the San Diego landscape, particularly the stretch around the pool. "Besides Bench's other attributes," reports Prager, "his vision...