Word: skis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...midwinter reunion, with a big log blazing on the fire. The Ski Dorm where they met this week was a Christmas present from the State of Vermont. Last summer all these boys & girls had been to Europe together - not on vacation, but to return a favor...
...Varsity Fencing Feb. Sat. 15 Brown Wed. 19 *M.I.T. Sat. 22 *Army Mar. Sat. 1 Cornell Sat. 8 *Columbia Sat. 15 Yale Sat. 22 Bowdoin Freshman Fencing Feb. Sat. 15 Andover Mar. Sat. 1 *Andover Sat. 15 Yale Sat. 22 Bowdoin J. V. Class A, B, C, and Freshmen Ski Teams Dec. Sat. 21 Franconia Giant Slalom and Cross Country for Class A and B--two days. Sun. 29 College Week at Placid for Class A. Jan. Sun. 12 Mass. St. Class C Downhill Champ for Class and Freshmen. Feb. Sat. 1 West Point Carnival for Class A--two days...
Picketing in near-zero temperatures, the teachers were warmed by parkas, winter coats, ski pants and the comforting thought that most St. Paul citizens sympathized with them. Governor Edward Thye had said that teachers' salaries were too low. Parents living near the schools invited pickets in for a cup of coffee to take the chill away. Some students turned out to cheer the strikers on. Of course nobody tried to crash the picket line...
...Quaker with faith in her work, Mrs. Vining refuses to let inconveniences like these get her down. When the cold got too much for her, she sent home for ski boots. Though she is cut off from U.S. Army post exchanges and can't even get her hair done there, Mrs. Vining says: "I'm doing very well." She is grateful to her Japanese hosts for a ten-room house, a 1940 Plymouth, a secretary and a chauffeur...
...following day, Swiss pilots flying ski-equipped Fieseler Storch planes took off survivors in nine breathtaking shuttle trips. None of the passengers had been badly hurt. Captain Ralph Tate Jr., pilot of the plane, felt so good at the rescue depot that he spurned an ambulance, jauntily vaulted a fence to the waiting hospital train. To eleven-year-old Alice McMahon, it had been great good fun living off snow and chocolate bars for five days. She came off the rescue plane vigorously chewing gum, told reporters: "I had a fine time...