Word: skiers
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...Lesley College. And while she is there, she says, "I'm going out and have a good time, and Ted knows about it." As for Ted, he does not stay at home either. In February, for example, he spent a few days skiing in Aspen with former Olympic Skier Suzy Chaffee. But speculation about a love affair, said Chaffee, 31, before giving a gymnastics performance last week at a Manhattan charity benefit, is nonsense. Suzy says she "has a man in her life and his initials are not T.K." Anyway, she asked, "If Rockefeller were skiing with Kennedy, would...
...father Gene was a world heavyweight champion and his wife Kathinka a Swedish skier in the 1962 world championships. No wonder former California Senator John Tunney has a special love of sports. He also has a law degree and a friend who asked his help in getting the U.S. license for the 1980 Moscow Olympics logo-a Russian bear named Misha. After months of telexing messages to Moscow, Tunney got the license, and presto, he and his friend have exclusive rights in the Western Hemisphere to promote the Olympics. On the drawing board: Olympic T shirts, buckles, decals and posters...
Phil Mahre has a chance to become the world's best skier...
...marvelous time. He skis, as one leading foreign coach puts it, "for sheer joy, unlike the Europeans, who often are driven by political, nationalistic or commercial pressures." At the age of 20, with his best years just ahead, Phil Mahre (pronounced mare) is already the finest American male skier in history, a solid gold-medal prospect for the 1980 Winter Olympic Games in Lake Placid, N.Y. As the World Cup competition ends this week in Arosa, Switzerland, Mahre is second only to Sweden's Ingemar Stenmark, 22, who has won the overall championship three years...
...women's team also finished well at Middlebury, despite being forced to hitch-hike to the race after its car died five miles from the Snow Bowl. Top finishes for alpine skiers Kris Hodgkins and Vera Fatjova, and Nordic skier Judy Rubinowitz, qualified all three for the national championships, and gave the team seventh in the alpine competition and tenth overall...