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...suit. "Pat," he called over his shoulder, "come here and talk to this girl. She's from the Urals." For a moment the three stood swaying and talking together in the midst of the crowd, recalling the Nixon visit last summer to the Soviet Union. Then a Japanese skier crowded in, said he was from "the Northern Islands." "I've been there." said Dick Nixon. Between autographs and greetings, Pat gratefully gulped down most of a chocolate milkshake in a paper cup which a friend handed her. A group of Australian hockey players squeezed...
...sight, among the towering pines up on KT-22 Mountain, lay a short stretch of snow that was to prove the burial ground of the U.S.'s fondest hopes for its high-rated women skiers. Even to the casual eye, the setting was sinister enough: the steepest, straightest schuss on the course dived toward a hard-packed bump, which tossed the skier into the air just as she hit a 90° left turn dubbed "Airplane Turn...
...Wash board. Looking like a small lady Martian in her white crash helmet and goggles, New Hampshire's round-cheeked, chunky Penny Pitou, 21, was the first skier to jab her poles into the snow and set off. Penny plummeted through the schuss, hit the bump at such a speed that she was forced to the washboard surface on the outside of the turn. For one frantic second, she tottered on one ski, then recovered control to flash home...
...Switzerland's Roger Staub, 24, a care free, reckless skier who has been a perennial runner-up, poled and skated his way through the giant slalom, took it easily...
STOWE, Vt., Jan. 20--Olympic skier Chick Igaya of Japan heads a list of 60 entries for the annual Stowe Cup races this weekend...