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...busload of college-age volunteers. And while Walter F. Mondale. Sen John H Glenn (D-Ohio). Sen Alan M Cranston (D-Calif) and George S. McGovern hobnobbed with the Maine party establishment at a party sponsored cocktail party. Hart threw a party for his student workers at a Manchester ski lodge...

Author: By Amy E. Pressman, | Title: Gary Hart | 3/12/1984 | See Source »

Spotted on campus during the recent Junior Parents' Weekend, were a plethora of preppy classics, from crewneck sweaters over jeans and corduroys to Brooks Brothers and J. Press sports jackets and rep ties. Sparking the classic mix: blouson or jean jackets, retro-looking ski sweaters, and the very occasional flash of miniskirt-bared legs. Adding their own ineffable brand of casual chic were a group of French students touring Harvard, wearing the born-again preppie garb which, ironically, is also the latest rage in Paris...

Author: By Lorna Koski, | Title: Studying the Classics | 3/9/1984 | See Source »

After his run, he had no trouble keeping everyone's attention. At 17, he admitted, he had been in trouble for car theft, until a compassionate judge let him off to attend the Mission Ridge Ski Academy in Washington. He concentrated on downhill when he began to tour in Europe and saw how downhillers were revered there. Off the road he divided his time between the houses of his father Wally, a computer systems analyst and sometime house-builder who lives in Van Nuys, Calif., and his mother D.B., who raced stock cars in high school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The High and Mighty | 2/27/1984 | See Source »

When the best Yugoslav ski jumper, Primoz Ulaga, 21, took his turn on the 70-meter sliding board, the pines of Malo Polje seemed outnumbered by fans. The hills echoed with "U-lah-gah, U-lah-gah," probably the loudest timpani in all the long history of men and banana peels. The amazing noise brought Ulaga out of the chute splendidly, but the track's icy grooves were too narrow to contain such enthusiasm. Backing up in mid-air like a duck in the path of buckshot, Ulaga flapped in every direction until he put down gracelessly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Joy of Taking Part | 2/27/1984 | See Source »

Demonstrating his passion for cold, Lamine Gueye, 23, an Alpine skier from sub-Sahara Africa who went on from water skiing after moving to Paris, was standing outside on the bitterest day of the Games eating two ice-cream cones at once. As the one-man Olympic team from Senegal, he suffers people's curiosity with a pleasant shrug. "I'm black and I'm a ski racer and I'm Senegalese and I'm tall, but I wish that I could just be a ski racer. I'm crazy about the downhill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Joy of Taking Part | 2/27/1984 | See Source »

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