Word: sitzmark
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plus fours and a handful of hardy girls willing to bundle up like a G.I. blanket roll. Now the whole shape of skiing has been changed by a trim, cozy and inordinately sexy import from Germany: stretch pants. Many a girl who did not 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...
Bent on becoming a ranking European ski star, Karim Ago Khan, 24, scored a diplomatic sitzmark while working out with the Austrian national squad near Salzburg. Racing down a slalom run, the generally sobersided Karim veered off the marked course and bowled over an Austrian photographer who had chosen to ignore the Aga's refusal to permit pictures. When the collision was untangled, the victim took his mangled Minolta and gashed ski boot to the local police station, charging reckless skiing. But before a damage suit could be prosecuted, the spiritual leader of 20 million Ismali Moslems lammed...
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