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...shops which over the years have acquired a reputation of being specialists in the ski equipment field. Most of them advertise in this supplement and it is well worth it for you to shop around and see what they have, even if you have to take a half hour ride or so. You will be pleased by the design of some of them; you will meet skiers from ski countries such as Germany, France, Switzerland or expert skiers and instructors from this country...
...Olympic skiers, will direct the ski school. Mt. Ascutney in Windsor is a new area on the North slope of an extinct volcano with 120 acres of meticulously groomed trails up to 1 1/2 miles in length. Its double chair lift carries 900 skiers an hour on a 4700' ride up a vertical rise, while three T-bar lifts serve the lower slopes for the novice and intermediate skier. The area is also unique because of its extensive development of year-round facilities (including a golf course), and mountain-side lots for those who wish to build their own North...
...hitched my usual ride on Dan Calderwood's motorcycle and we drove to the Varsity Club, where the team eats together. Someone mentioned that people were thinking of having a prep rally the night before the game. Van Cunningham, the manager, thought it would be a good idea, but the team was against it. "We're just sacrificial cows," said Paul Barringer, and he spoke for a lot of us; the students who treat football players as a joke would treat the pep rally as a joke, and this week no one was in a joking mood...
...Britisher invented the bobsled. In 1890, Wilson Smith nailed two toboggans together and invited three friends along for a hair-raising ride down a mountain at St. Moritz. Capital idea, decided the Italians, the Swiss and the Americans, who added steel runners, steering wheels, crash helmets, specially constructed bobsled runs, speeds up to 90 m.p.h.-and took turns dominating the sport. The U.S. won five championships in the 1930s and '40s, and Italy's great steersman, Eugenic Monti, led his team to eight world titles (both two-man and four-man) in seven years...
...lines are hampered by erratic schedules, the high cost of operation and passenger fears about safety that are hard to allay. (In the past decade, helicopter lines have carried 3,130,000 passengers with only two fatal crashes.) Every time a helicopter passenger pays $8 for a ride, taxpayers must chip in another $8 to enable him to make the trip. Still, as helicopter technology has advanced, the taxi lines have managed to cut per-seat costs from $3.68 per mile...