Word: skis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Deinboll, a former Norwegian air force flyer, had two hours to set up a search. He flashed the mining company's office at the sister village of Ny-Alesund (pop. 1,000), then set out to rouse the sleeping villagers of Longyearbyen. He organized a dozen ski patrols of two and three men each, assigned them to nearby mountain lookout positions. Soon three men rushed back from their patrol to report seeing the orange parachute drifting down from the sky. It had fallen into the mountains south of the village, not far from the Russian mining community of Barentsburg...
This week, as the search continued, the competition took on a more meaningful aspect: air crews spotted ski patrols near Barentsburg. It was likely that the Russians had joined the treasure hunt...
...Crimson ski team won the Annual Harvard-Dartmouth Slalom easily with a team score of 621.1 seconds Saturday. The Dartmouth skiers had a total of 785.4 seconds on the course, which was 40 gates in length. This is the ninth time since 1945 that the Crimson has won the race...
...University sponsored the slalom this year, which was run on Hillman's Highway at Mt. Washington, N.H. In the individual standings, Brooks Dodge of Dartmouth took first place with a run of 37.4 seconds. Don Stephenson, captain of the Crimson ski team, came in second with a time...
...Following hot on the heels of his 18-year-old brother Gene (TIME, March 23), Glenn Kotlarek, 17, of Duluth, Minn., won the national junior ski-jumping championship at Yakima, Wash. with jumps...