Word: skier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pair of ski-pants (If they're Radcliffe students) or a couple of bottles of Old Crow (if they're Harvard men). After all, the word "skiing" in the vocabulary of the normal red-blooded American doesn't usually fit Webster's definition-it means something different to every "skier...
Born. To Andrea ("Andy") Mead Lawrence, 20, who started taking professional lessons at the age of six to become the world's fastest woman skier, winner of two gold medals (for the giant slalom and two-heat slalom) at 1952's winter Olympics, and Skier David Lawrence, 22, member of the U.S. men's Olympic team last year and 1949 U.S. giant slalom champion: their first child, a son; in Rutland, Vt. Weight...
...Russian battleship, two heavy cruisers and 532 Red army tanks in 2,500 sorties. Decorated with the Wehrmacht's highest combat honors,* Rudel escaped to Buenos Aires at war's end, sold his memoirs (Nevertheless . . .) and, despite his wooden leg, bested all comers as tennis player, swimmer, skier and mountaineer...
...team's main hope lies in Neil Dixon, an experienced four-event skier. Despite a sprained ankle suffered early in the season last year, Dixon showed well at the end of the year and in the last cross-country race of the season, beat out John Hart for top honors in that event...
...interest also is that track star Bob Twitchell is going to try to become a cross-country skier. "It's happened before," Wise said," and we figure he could be great...