Word: ski
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...frosty morning in early 1974, a novice skier named James Sunday, 20, was working his way through a slow snowplow turn near the intersection of Drifter and Interstate trails on Vermont's Stratton Mountain. One of his ski tips hooked on a bit of snow-covered underbrush, and Sunday fell. He broke his neck and was permanently paralyzed from the shoulders down. He brought suit, and last year a Burlington, Vt., jury found the Stratton Mountain Corp. fully liable for the accident. It awarded Sunday $1.5 million in damages...
Traditionally, claims for ski injuries have been discouraged by the "assumption of risk" doctrine: anyone who chooses to engage in an obviously risky activity normally must take personal responsibility for what happens to him. With about 200,000 accidents a year occurring on the slopes, skiing certainly qualifies as risky activity. But in presiding over...
Sunday case, Vermont Superior Judge Wynn Underwood, himself an avid skier, refused to allow immediate dismissal "simply because there are some inherent risks in the sport." Ironically, Underwood cited vastly improved maintenance and patrol operations at major ski areas as one reason operators might be held to blame. On such well-groomed slopes, the judge suggested, skiers no longer expect to encounter boulders or stumps and thus can no longer be responsible for assuming that high risks exist in the natural course of things...
While Mom and Dad bundled off to Europe on White House business, Amy Carter bundled up for her first ever ski lessons in Crested Butte, Colo. "She's pretty aggressive-and that's important-and brave too," said Instructor Mike Wells after Amy's first day on the slopes. "She tried to kiss a tree once, and she got up laughing." Amy, who is staying with Carter family friends in Colorado, will get a course in skiing fundamentals during her six-day visit, says Wells, and a chance to test her new skills on the resort...
...alpine valley of unparalleled beauty, a spruce-and-birch wilderness without roads or ski lifts or other signs of human intrusion. Only the howl of the wind-or of an occasional wolf-now disturbs the silence. But man is on the way. Last week the Alaska capital site planning commission chose the design of a new state capital to rise in the valley. Unless opponents of the plan develop unexpected new strength, this idyllic subarctic landscape will become a kind of Brasilia of the North-though hardly as monumental as its Latin counterpart and far more in harmony with...