Word: ski
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Occasionally I pretend I'm from Dartmouth and turn into an animal--but that's only when I'm racing," Eric Jewett said yesterday after his two first-place finishes last week led Harvard to its first triumph in a ski meet in almost ten years...
Battling "bloody cold" weather as well as our neighbors to the north, a shorthanded Harvard ski team began its season on the upbeat in the Canadian-American IAS race at Sunday River, Maine, last week...
After Gerald Ford took his widely televised spill on the ski slopes at Vail, Colo., Press Secretary Ron Nessen berated reporters for neglecting the President's accomplishments in office to spotlight his unfortunate footwork outside the White House. Last week syndicated Columnist Max Lerner, a liberal, added a complaint that the press has created an undeserved "ordeal of ridicule" for Ford that "will affect not only his personal showing against Reagan, which isn't so important for the nation, but also the Administration conduct of foreign and domestic policy, which is." Americans, said Lerner, "can afford to distinguish...
...After a convivial evening at the White House, he wished guests "a merry Christmas and a merry-uh-a happy New Year." Then, as he was walking toward his helicopter, his legs got tangled up in his dogs' leashes. A day later, he was waiting on the ski-lift line at Vail, Colo., when one of the chairs swung around and almost knocked him over. Two days later, he took a spill on the slopes. Many skiers do the same, of course, but Ford's spill was duly recorded by cameras and splashed across TV screens and front...
...Verdict occurs in Swiss and Austrian hospitals. For one thing, the disease is now under control. Also, the book often dips back into "preverdict" times. There are three long, notable set pieces-a jet-set party in a ski chalet; an account of the boyhood of David Palastanga, Knef's husband, in London's East End; and a chronicle of a nightclub tour a few years ago in which she sang and Palastanga did just about everything else. They are all funny, mercilessly observed scenes, full of irony and incongruity...