Word: skiers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bergère showgirl in Las Vegas. There she met Andy Williams, the Kennedys' favorite crooner, and ended up marrying him and his singing career. After 14 years of marriage and three children, they were divorced in 1975, but by then Longet had moved in with Sabich. The skier, a former world pro champion, was a celebrated bon vivant who owned a $250,000 mountaintop house in Aspen. It was there, while he was washing his face, that Longet killed him on March...
...course, the better a skier you are the more you can enjoy the sensation of sliding downhill. Anyone with enough patience who is willing to withstand a few seasons of embarrassing uncoordination can learn to ski well, and no matter what legions of instructors say, skiing can be a self-taught discipline. All you need is someone to show you the basics...
...Every skier comes to a point sooner or later in his or her careers when the person realizes that he or she is in love with sport. For me this moment came last year. I had been waiting for 25 minutes on a lift line at Killington. I was freezing, the conditions were awful, and I had aggravated an old injury on the previous run. Yet none of this bothered me in the least. I came to the sudden, unmistakable realization that there was no place else I wanted to be, that I was completely hooked on downhill skiing...
Four years ago I watched my brother break his leg. I have a complete instant replay in my mind. Lee is a much better skier than I am, so I followed him down a narrow cutoff and watched as he stumbled for a split-second and flew off into the trees, where a small elm broke his fall and both bones in his right calf. Lee still skis...
...regulars. Not long ago, Sabich reportedly told a close friend that their relationship was at a crucial point. "It's either going to end," the friend quoted Spider as saying, "or we'll be married within a year." Rumors were flying in Aspen last week that the skier had been considering ordering her and her three children out of his house-and his life...