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...meadows, photograph elk, ermine and eagles, soak in private hot tubs and feed resident tame llamas. No sounds of sports cars, chain saws, chairlifts or rock music from après-ski lounges pollute the mountain air. At $75 a day, including instruction, equipment and dinners of prime rib and smoked turkey, the ranch is half the price of similar downhill digs. But half price is only half the reason for the appeal. Ranch Operator Ken Jones says: "Most of our clientele are ex-downhillers. They're here to relax, unwind and get away from the throngs. Gliding through...
Sophomore forward CHRIS MITCHELL--also known as "Psycho"--has been going bald lately. Although his teammates love to rib him about it, he maintains that it's his high forehead that makes everyone talk about his receding hairline...
...making the shift from flanker to split end during the preseason, to accommodate Ron Cuccia's move to quarterback, Scheper expected to see a lot of balls coming his way. Instead, the team's fastest player (4.55 in the 40) has caught just nine passes through nine games (a rib injury kept him out against Holy Cross), including three for touchdowns. His season was typified by the Princeton game, in which he caught three passes--two of them were nullified by penalties and on the third, an official ruled that he caught the ball out of bounds. Statistically, Scheper...
Senior split end Dirk Killen is a questionable starter for the 34th meeting of Harvard and Army tomorrow at Soldiers Field. Killen tore a muscle inside his rib cage last Saturday during Harvard's 33-19 loss to Holy Cross, an injury similar to the one that has sidelined wide receiver Paul Scheper since the first half of the Columbia game two weeks...
...deputies also organized entertainments for the jurors: a trip to the harness races, a werewolf movie, a sightseeing tour, a night at the Shriners' circus, a lavish prime-rib meal (for which the jurors had to ante up because the cost exceeded the dinner allowance of $16), plus weekly shopping trips for snacks and toilet articles. But everywhere the jurors went, the deputies went too. All the defendants had been members of Chicago street gangs, and the authorities did not want to take any chances on attacks or disruptions by other gang members. "It was like a giant baby...