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Each trick has a value assessed by the American Water-Ski Association much in the same way as diving stunts are awarded different degrees of difficult. The skier has two 20-second passes in which to perform as many difficult and high-valued tricks...
JEAN SAUBERT. 20. of Lakeviewr, Ore., is a wondrously versatile skier who ranks among the world's best at all three Alpine events. The brown-haired Oregon State coed swept to victory in both the downhill and the slalom at Sun Valley, beating Germany's Barbi Henneberger, one of Europe's best. Then at Mount Alyeska, she won the giant slalom...
...Handling this company is like skiing." mused Culligan. "If you are standing looking down a great slope, as an experienced skier, there is nothing to it. It offers fun, adventure, a chance to use your skills. But if you haven't done it before, the prospect is terrifying. This is the fourth time I've attempted this kind of thing. In many respects, the other slopes were much tougher." How are things on the hazardous Curtis slope six weeks after Culligan started at the top? Going great, he says. In spite of a $4,000,000 loss...
...even newer trend is the skiing vacation in Europe. A skier who catches Alitalia's 8 p.m. Flight 603 at Idlewild Airport on Friday is in Milan Saturday morning at 9:20, ready to jump into a rented Fiat for the drive to Cervinia. At noon, he is schussbooming down the flanks...
...Aspen, Colo., which likes to think of itself as the U.S. ski capital. "No Vacancy" signs were up everywhere. The Aspen Ski Corp.'s gross for the last three months was 15% ahead of the same period last season. Long the favorite resort of the dedicated skier because of its constant supply of dry, powder snow, Aspen has been discovered recently by the snowbunny set. Grumbles William R. Dunnaway, proprietor of the Aspen Times: "The new people are the sort who don't get up until noon, ski for an hour, then start getting ready for cocktails...