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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Coach Graham Taylor's skiers will compete in the Pineland Ski and Outing Club's jumping, cross-country, and slalom-down hill combined meet this Sunday at Andover, Maine...
Andrea Mead Lawrence, who usually skis for fun, was not feeling particularly happy one morning last week. Up early, she found she didn't want any breakfast. Instead, she hiked to the ski slope and made a short run, halfway down the hill, to loosen her tense muscles. Then she caught the tow for a pull to the top of Norway's Olympic giant slalom course...
...nerves and muscles took over. Given the favorite No. 4 starting position, she swooped down the tricky course with the easy grace of a prima ballerina. As usual, she looked as if she were loafing, even as she made a final flick with her ski pole to break the electric-eye photo timer at the finish. But the knowing crowd, recognizing speed when they saw it, cheered her effortless descent, cheered again as she fell into the waiting arms of her husband, U.S. Skier Dave Lawrence. When Andy's time was announced (2:06.8), even Andy was surprised...
...downhill race, over an icy and treacherous course, not even the winner, Austria's Trude Beiser Jochum, had much fun. The U.S. team skidded and slithered into a disastrous series of pell-mell spills. Andy, after one half fall and a daredevil jump ending in a ski-tangled pileup, led the U.S. squad but finished a sorry 17th out of 43. Her sense of humor still intact, she said with a grin: "I guess we're the crash and burn team ... I made a great jump-right off the course." This week Andy had only...
Crimson skiers placed fourth out of a field of nine in the Eastern Intercollegiate Ski Association's Divisional Championships at Lyndonville, Vt., this weekend...