Word: schuss
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Almost the only way of telling one Swiss Alp from another is by the celebrities who choose to schuss its slopes by day and carouse, après-ski, in the little town huddled at its base. If the sporty figure sipping a spot of Pernod at the peak is Aristotle Onassis and the lady sitting it out at the bottom is Elsa Maxwell, then the site is St. Moritz. If the set is peopled by a slightly showier crowd, among them players such as Audrey Hepburn, Mel Ferrer and Deborah Kerr, it is Klosters. And if the Greek fellow...
...cover the high cost of schuss and slalom, many young people become what are known-not derogatorily-as ski bums. Ski bums work to pay their way; they make up a major part of the labor force at the winter resorts. They fare better in the East, where they get room, board, lift tickets and a little extra money, than in the West, where they get only money, and not much of that. A few are adept enough to work as instructors, but most of Aspen's ski bums work in the bars, restaurants and shops...
...know a slalom from a sitzmark has discovered that stretch pants round out her personality in a fetching manner and make a skiing weekend an opportunity rather than an ordeal; men linger on the trails to see rather than ski as the girls in the stretch pants schuss by. Says one spectator sportsman: "The development of stretch pants is really more important than the discovery...
...been almost unnoticed in the bustling Olympic Village, training so diligently that she barely bothered to celebrate her 19th birthday three days before the race. In perfect control, Heidi sacrificed some speed by beginning her turn two-thirds of the way down the schuss, but shaved the corner so closely that she missed the main heave of the bump, tamed Airplane Turn. Her final time beat Penny's by a full second...
...svelte Betsy Snite, 21, back in form after a knee injury earlier this season and second only to Penny on the proud U.S. team. Hunched low over her skis, cutting corners like a man, Betsy looked the fastest of the day as she shot out of the schuss. Then she hit the bump. The impact slammed her into Airplane's bank so hard that she caught an edge, arched through a double cartwheel, fell on a ski point and lay still...