Word: ski
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rigging his car with a secret electromagnet to win the 1973 All-American Soap Box Derby, it seemed that he was a boy whose all-American ingenuity was exceeded only by his guile. Now it turns out that his uncle and legal guardian, Robert Lange, founder of a ski-equipment firm called the Lange Co., taught him all he knew. In a letter to the derby director in Boulder, Lange said not only that the magnetic nose "has been around for years" but that he had to urge it on his nephew because so many others were cheating too. "Anyone...
Tuck, who was born in Arizona and graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara, was always interested in politics, though not very seriously. "There are ski bums and tennis bums," says Tom Saunders, an old friend. "Tuck is a politics bum." But he knew what he liked and what he did not. Richard Nixon fell into the second category. As Tuck recalls it, the pair first met in a classic encounter that would shape their future relationship. While a student at Santa Barbara, Tuck was working for Congresswoman Helen Gahagan Douglas in her 1950 campaign against Nixon...
...history is frequently a comedown for the hero (and antihero) worshiper. But for the record: it was not one man at all but a U.S.-Canadian team led by one Ralph Plaisted of Minnesota. The party arrived April 19, 1968, without so much as a mush. They were riding Ski-Doos...
...know poor blacks. Out of that experience has grown his conviction that everyone ought to share well in the rewards of the System. Deffet was born and reared in Columbus, attending Catholic schools and later the University of Dayton for two years. After an Army hitch in an Alaska ski troop and several years in his father-in-law's Columbus real estate business, he struck out on his own with $10,000 in borrowed money. Now, twelve years later, a modishly dressed Deffet operates from a plush, mahogany-paneled office...
...yearning of city dwellers for a second home in unspoiled surroundings. When developers move in to meet the demand, land prices rise. In the past five years, for instance, the average value of a Vermont acre has jumped from $200 to $500; the price of land near many ski or lake resorts has quadrupled to $2,000 an acre. Property taxes have soared to pay for expanded public services. As a result, many Vermonters with low incomes have found that they can no longer afford to stay on their own land...