Word: skier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Valley, for a compote of four documentaries. The network will open its evening with No. 5 in Jacques Yves Cousteau's series of hymns to the sea. To Love a Child, a study of adoption's triumphs and travails, will follow. Kitty Le Champion will show the skier involved in snowless pursuits. As it happens, the last of the evening's documentaries should be first...
...rivalry, State Department press conferences, senility and even C. P. Snow ("known to writers as a scientist and known to scientists as a writer"). One of the longest and funniest monologues is that of a BBC-television sports broadcaster, who corrects an error by informing his audience that a skier "placed third in the competition--not twenty-third as I said an hour ago, or thirty-third as I will say an hour from...
...wind blew into the woods. Others have experimented with long, shining strips of polymer plastics, which proved to be too slow and did not allow the ski edges to bite into the material on turns. Still others have developed mats with nylon bristles; they worked well?until the skier fell. Recalls Jack Kurlander, a founder of the Great Gorge ski area in New Jersey: "The bristles were needle-sharp and everybody tore his pants. There was blood, blood, blood. Boy! Were we embarrassed...
...European resorts, including Cortina d'Ampezzo and Tarvisio. Sno-Mat's secret is that it comes in small, interlocking units, each of which looks like a giant pince-nez; they thus hug the contour of the land while presenting no joints to catch the sharp ski edges or the skier's thumb and fingers, should he fall. In addition, the units are covered with thick, round-ended bristles, colored green to guard against ultraviolet rays that make the plastic brittle...
Last week the temperature hovered around 60° at Great Gorge and the fall foliage still hung on the trees, but a hundred-odd young skiers turned up early to try the synthetic surface. They wedeled down the 1,200-ft. slope or slammed through the slalom course. A few even tried the 30-meter jump, which later this month will be used by Olympic hopefuls. Those that tumbled picked themselves up unhurt; Sno-Mat's pliable bristles had cushioned their falls. "Psychologically, Sno-Mat would be better if it were white," said Sven Evenesen, 17. "But I'm happy...