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Senior Sandy Whitelaw, a member of the 1952 British Olympic Squad and the Crimson's only Class A skier, is entered in the downhill and slalom events along with Captain Ebbe Dane, veteran Pete Churchill, Sten Lium, and Jim Graves. Churchill, Pat Colt, Lindsay Fischer, and Joe Poindexter, last year's freshman captain, will jump and run cross-country. Dane and Lium are also entered in the cross-country...
...Among the extravagant titles Perón's followers bestow on him is "World's No. 1 Sportsman"-which in sports-worshiping Argentina is rather more eulogistic than calling him, say, "World's No. 1 Statesman." In his younger days Perón was a boxer, skier, crack shot, swordsman, horseman, speedboater and racing-car driver. But in recent years motorcycling has become the aging (59) No. 1 sportsman's No. 1 sport. He often takes a spin on the grounds of his suburban estate or his downtown presidential residence, and now and then he rides...
...Marciszewski, fled Poland as a 15-year-old refugee from czarist military conscription. He Americanized the family name, learned the tailoring trade, and eventually settled in Rumford. In spite of his sedentary occupation, father Muskie was a confirmed outdoorsman at heart, and Ed became an enthusiastic fisherman, a good skier and a competent trackman in school...
...theory that it is a "study in will power." "He thought that one could reach a sort of inner harmony while skiing," says a friend. That harmony is still far off; he has broken a leg, been hospitalized with contusions. "I've never seen such a terrible skier," says a friend...
...amiable Russians seemed more bent on winning friends than influencing people. The Finns, on the other hand, were inclined to be a little grim. Finnish Coach Antera Lauri, who had taken a team to Russia the year before, scoffed at reports that the Russians were unbeatable. One Finnish skier was more explicit: "We're going to do to them what they did to us in the winter...