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...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...
...accidents could have been easily avoided by minuscule foresight," sighs Captain David Oliver of the Coast Guard in Chicago. "Mostly it's just plain stupidity." Seasoned boatmen still shake their heads over the youthful sport who recently went blasting around Lake of the Ozarks, Mo., with a water-skier in tow. Keeping his eyes on the skier, he slammed at 30 m.p.h. into a cabin cruiser, decapitating himself in the process. Equally foolish were the nine people who piled into a 16-ft. outboard and put to sea from York, Me., last June. Naturally, the boat soon foundered; eight...
...angry withdrawal of North Korea-because it insisted on being called the "Democratic People's Republic of Korea"; the cries of outrage from East Germany after three of its tobogganists were disqualified for cheating; the attempts by officials of rival nations to vilify France's great skier, Jean-Claude Kilty...
...Class A skier, Carter finished in the top five in the giant slalom in all three of the big winter carnivals at Dartmouth, Williams, and Middlebury. He also snared seventh-place at both Dartmouth and Middlebury...
Wolff also had a good season. His top performance came in the 40-meter jump at the Dartmouth Carnival, where he finished tenth. A Class C jumper and a Class B skier, Wolff has developed into one of Harvard's finest jumpers in many years, Friedman said...