Word: ski
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shots-all with his racquet cover on to make swinging more difficult. Removing the cover, he stroked another 200 balls before loosening up his shoulder with 25 practice serves. Then he limbered up his legs-already toughened by twice-weekly circuits of a 4½-mile-long cross-country ski trail-with 100 or so turns of a jump rope. Finally he took to the court for several brisk sets of tennis. Still, though he is as hard as a spike at 6 ft., 170 Ibs., the champ was not satisfied. "My return of serve is out the window...
...Rand not only ski jumps, he does so at heights from which you and I would suffer nose bleeds. Try 70 meters, and you'll have to conduct a pretty extensive search of the Harvard record books to discover the last Crimson skier who tried that...
...results, his best finish a year ago was 32nd at Middlebury, this winter he made it to 24th at Dartmouth, and considering his dearth of experince and the fact that Rand considers ski jumping a hobby, that's not bad. "At least this year," he said, "I could think about things while jumping other than survival...
...however, Rand is feeling the effects of his two-month dose of five-day weekends. The work has piled up as high as a 50-meter jump, and when Wednesdays roll around, despite his itching to get out of Cambridge, Harvard's best (and one of three) ski jumpers hits the books instead of the slopes...
...winter supposedly becomes spring, and the snow supposedly disappears, Dave Rand becomes a student once again--supposedly. He's not a great ski jumper, but he's the best at Harvard, and that's my justification for having written a column about him. Supposedly...