Word: skiers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...slalom event was taken by Al Hobart, a full-time skier, with a time of 89.1 seconds, 2.5 seconds faster than Friedman. "I would have been second in the grand slalom, but I went through a gate backwards," Friedman said. The Crimson coach finished with a time of 1:48.79. Frank Hurt, former Middlebury ski captain, won the grand slaloms...
...practice ski jump at the Middlebury Winter Carnival. He was rushed to the hospital suffering from a concussion, memory loss, and neck and back injuries. He is now in good condition at Stillman Infirmary. His absence cost Harvard valuable points in the Nordic events and left the Crimson skier's in sixth place in the final team standings at Middlebury...
...only other Harvard skier to place among the top ten in any event was Peter Carter who finished fourth in the giant slalom. Carter also finished fourth in the slalom, but he was disqualified for missing a gate...
...downhill ski races and two-man bobsledding, then threatened to wash out the tobogganing altogether. The slippery slopes played havoc with the U.S. ski team: two fractures, a sprained ankle, a dislocated shoulder and a gashed head. A television helicopter crashed into a snowbank, forcing a French skier to veer off course into a fence, and a runaway toboggan smacked headlong into a spectator...
...Cosmopolitan sees it, there is almost no human activity into which sex cannot be introduced. Instructions on how to go skiing turn into advice on how to snag a skier. "You're standing on the left line next to a slim-hipped Nordic god. You produce a cigarette. He's got to be interested if he removes his gloves in arctic weather and delves through pockets to light you up." Even archaeological expeditions are happy hunting grounds. "One night, wild and high," reports a girl who joined a dig in Greece, "we danced Zorbalike steps to records...