Word: skiers
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Michael Kennedy was an expert skier, and his death was not the result of reckless behavior [NATION, Jan. 12]. I was one of several fathers participating in the ski football game the day of the accident. I would certainly not have played with my 11-year-old son if there had been any evident danger. None of us were told not to play by any official of the Aspen Skiing Co. Ski-patrol members invariably skied behind us to complete their afternoon sweep, and ski-lift personnel routinely ferried our ski poles to the bottom of the mountain. Michael...
Skiing is a hazardous sport, and the last hour before the lifts shut down is the most dangerous. Legs are tired, vision is impaired and judgment can be poor. The expert skier knows this. The Kennedys should never have been allowed to play their game. This death was not just another Kennedy tragedy; it was an act of sheer stupidity. DICK KENT Encino, Calif...
...Michael, 39, was an expert skier and a cheerful quarterback; he even brought along a video camera to record the game for the family archives. By 3:30 the restaurant was closing, the lifts had stopped and the ski patrol was telling the lingering Kennedys and their friends that it was time to head down. Nevertheless, 36 members of the Kennedy party prepared to play. "Michael is the ringleader, without question," says New York City social columnist R. Couri Hay, who describes himself as a longtime Kennedy acquaintance, and whom the National Enquirer quickly made a special correspondent last week...
...skier since childhood, Mack enlisted in the 10th Mountain Division, which trained in the Colorado mountains and on the Texas plains for an assault up the backbone of Italy...
...Brett Heckman, an attorney for Nathan Hall, yesterday. Hall, 18, is being prosecuted in the death of Alan Cobb, a skier with whom he collided while on the job as a ski resort employee. Prosectuors are arguing that a speeding skier is a weapon, much the same way as is a bat or a piece of wood...