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...space capsule," says Boston University Psychiatrist Sanford Cohen. But while working with the early astronauts some 20 years ago, Cohen observed that "John Glenn just saw it as a job and went about it in a businesslike manner." Notes Benson: "A snowstorm is not stressful to a skier, but it is to someone who has an appointment across town...
Margaret Waters, a junior in Winthrop House, carried the banner for Harvard's female runners Competing in only her second marathon. Waters reached the pru in 3.03:32. "I were a Harvard shirt and people cheered me on a lot," the cross-country skier said last night. "It was hard...
Considering that his domain is a collection of play villages built on the order of cuckoo clocks, Mahre seems wondrously down to earth. His celebrity in Europe is such that, when the greatest skier in the world comes home to the U.S., he enjoys being ignored. "I don't think there are many Americans who understand what I've done," Mahre said. "That's unfortunate for skiing but nice for me. I'm not one for fame and fortune." He does not strike himself as being that phenomenal. "I grew up in the snow," he said...
Concerning finances, he is forthright. It is hard to find pictures of the Mahres, or any skier for that matter, without skis propped over their hearts, brand names out. When Phil was asked if he intended to go on and wind up the season this week in Japan, he replied, "Sure, if not for myself, for my companies...
Billy Kidd, the pre-eminent U.S. skier of the '60s, stood off to the side at Mahre's Aspen victory, marveling, actually chuckling, over how relatively little Mahre appears to value the usual rewards. "Recognition, money, history books," Kidd said, "he doesn't care much about any of that. Only about having fun. He's serious, of course, but not intense. It's incredible that he's this way and this good. Above all, he's an unbelievable athlete...