Word: skiers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the International Ski Federation issued its seedings for 1968, France's Jean-Claude Killy, 24, became the first skier in history to rank No. 1 in all three categories: slalom, giant slalom and downhill. Deservedly so. Last year the son of a Val d'Isère innkeeper won an astonishing 27 out of 32 events to make a shambles of competition for the World...
...women's division of the Corcoran Cup, comprised of only two races, Cliffie skier Robin Barnes placed 5th and 11th for a combined standing...
...Each skier will be charged ten dollars --covering transportation, lift fees, hot chocolate and beer--for the trip which will return to Cambridge by 7 p.m. Wednesday night...
...million Snowmass-at-Aspen, far and away the biggest new winter resort to be developed since Alec Gushing (TIME cover, Feb. 9, 1959) built up Squaw Valley for the 1960 Olympics. At Snowmass, Bill Janss, 49, a millionaire Los Angeles land developer and onetime U.S. Olympic Team skier, has carved out 2,000 acres of slopes with 50 miles of trails and five double-chair lifts on Mount Baldy (13,-162 ft.), which have already matched the ski area of the three nearby mountains served by the town of Aspen proper, ten miles distant...
...Bacon once wrote, but who would ever think that the Earl of Snowdon would take him so literally. There was intrepid Tony, 37, hanging onto a 15-ft. by 12-ft. yellow kite and soaring 70 ft. over the surface of Bedfont Lake in Middlesex. Already an expert water skier, Lord Snowdon managed the tricky take-off on his first try, stayed aloft for ten gusty minutes. There was no word on when Princess Margaret would attempt a flyin, but Tony had their five-year-old son on water skis the next day, recommended the added kicks of kiting...