Word: ski
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chairlift lines at Vail, Colo., were longer than usual during the recent Christmas to New Year vacation week--a tribute to the drawing power of America's first skiing president. Thousands of people each day waited up to two hours for a gondola ride to the Mid-Vail ski bowl where Gerry Ford and a zillion Secret Service agents were learning the difference between a schuss and a wedel. Since Ford usually made his appearances between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.--in the height of the noonday sun--the sun decks outside the Mid-Vail ski lodge and the chairlift...
Whenever Ford set out on a run, he was pursued by an entourage of family members, friends, hangers-on and Secret Service agents-selected for their skiing skills-that strung out for hundreds of yards in his wake, as though playing follow-the-leader. "He's fast," approvingly observed one ski instructor who tagged along. "He isn't in the professional class, but he's an advanced intermediate...
...estimated 5 million skiers in the U.S., 250,000 will probably be injured on the slopes this winter. Can the risks of skiing be reduced? Ski-school directors and designers of ski equipment have long argued that better instruction and improved equipment could cut the injury rate considerably. Three doctors from the Boston School of Medicine question this. Drs. Joshua Gutman, Jonathan Weisbuch and Milton Wolf write in the A.M.A. Journal that despite better equipment and training, the injury rate for skiers has changed little, if at all, in twelve years. What has changed is the nature of ski injuries...
...their conclusion on a study of 792 skiers injured at Vermont's Mount Snow during the 1972-73 season. The current rate of 3.4 injuries per 1,000 skier-days was virtually the same as that observed at the same mountain in 1960-61. But the pattern of ski injuries was greatly changed. In the past, the classic ski injury, the broken ankle, accounted for nearly half of all ski fractures. Now, because of stiff plastic boots that protect the ankles, and bindings that release under bone-breaking tensions, such injuries make up only 16% of the total...
...Boston physicians also dispute earlier surveys which indicated that beginners were the ones most likely to fall and hurt themselves, and the implication that ski lessons could help prevent injuries. The new study suggests that skilled skiers, who move faster and on more challenging slopes, fall harder. Of the 792 casualties, no fewer than two-thirds classed themselves as either intermediate or expert skiers...