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While Prager practiced his parallels in Colorado, his fellow reporters were scrutinizing other terrain. Los Angeles Correspondent Sandra Burton, a skier since her Middlebury College days in Vermont a decade ago, visited mountain resorts in New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming and Idaho. In the Northeast, New York Correspondent Marcia Gauger returned to visit some of her own favorite skiing haunts. Gauger, who has had lessons in four languages at ski schools round the world, is a veteran of pulled ligaments, frozen feet and broken bones (foot and leg). When her reporting in Stratton, Vt., was interrupted...
...starts out on skis as short as 2½ ft. and works up through increasingly longer ones as his skill improves. A beginner can do parallel turns after five hours of instruction, less than half the time required by older methods. At most areas where G.L.M. is taught, a skier can rent the graduated skis and buy five hours of lessons for less than $50-about the same as regular lessons...
...matter what the method, instructors are adopting a more laissez-faire approach, in which form takes a back seat, as it were, to control. Once they used to insist that a skier keep his feet as close together as possible; today many say he can have them as far apart as his hips. Advises Robert Gratton, director of the Mount Snow, Vt., ski school: "If something doesn't feel comfortable...
...difficult. Even with props reversed, the steel leviathan will frequently coast up to ten miles before coming to a dead halt. A tanker can reduce that distance to less than two miles by a tactic called "slaloming"-turning in one direction and then in the other, like a racing skier...
...intended for those athletes for whom sport is merely recreation for personal pleasure. It is an Olympic rule that they must have a vocation entirely separate from their particular sport." The rule is constantly flouted, to say nothing of being selectively and ineptly enforced. Austria's champion skier, Karl Schranz, was barred from last February's Winter Olympics at Sapporo on charges of professionalism, to which dozens of his competitors would -at least in private-plead guilty. The amateur status of most athletes from Communist countries is also in question. Potential champions get superior housing, superior food...