Word: skiers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
Just three seconds slower than winner Tom Corcoran, a former Olympic skier, Friedman grabbed fourth place with a finishing time of 58 seconds. Flying through the gates in 90.5 seconds the coach snared a second in the slalom event, just 0.8 seconds off the winning time...