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While granting that the advice in their letter is fine, I feel that the H.M.C.'s concern is belatedly expressed, and does little to excuse their evasion of a vital responsibility to the climber and skier, not in print, but on the slope of mount Washington. R. Michel Zilberstein...
...like skiing, though, the snowy hinterlands report generally good to excellent conditions. New Hampshire is one of the most accessible areas for the Harvard skier. North Conway's Cranmore Mountain, whose trails are served more Mountain, whose trails are served by their famous skimobile, offers a variety of trails for most beginning and intermediate skiers. A few miles past North Conway, in the increasingly popular Jackson area, are Balack and thorn Mountains. At Black Mountain there is a 2500-foot Alpine lift, and at Thorn a 4000-foot chair lift supplemented by two rope tows which give access...
Standing at the top of a West Berlin ski slide last week, Skier Heinz Mannstedt made a snap decision: instead of going all the way back down the hill to get proper straps for his borrowed skis, he would take a chance on the makeshift harness he was wearing. Thus decided, Heinz took off-and a moment later, as he and his skis parted company, gave photographers one of the most arresting skiing photographs in a long time...
...Skier Mannstedt picked himself up a long way down the slope, resolutely tried again - this time with the proper bindings...
...athlete, Kistiakowsky serves on the Faculty Committee on Athletics, and is outspokenly in favor of strengthening Harvard football in every way short of outright commercialism. He debunks the faculty myth which says he once advocated the hiring of tackles. "It was backs," he says. He is a fine skier, but belittles his ability to the point of taking novice friends with him, then fooling them into accompanying him down the most frightening slopes. Other members of the Chemistry Department are wary of going with him, as his guests have an unusual propensity for breaking legs. Even his wife was unable...