Word: skis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lack of snow the varsity ski team has entered only one team competition so far this winter. Captain Pete Churchill was the Crimson standout, taking 8th in the jumping out of a field of 61 in the Lyndonville, N.H., Intercollegiate Meet...
Borne north by car and plane, by skier and foot racer, the Olympic torch this week will travel from Rome to the famed ski resort of Cortina d'Ampezzo in the Dolomites. Its arrival will open the seventh Winter Olympics. Even before they began, the games seemed headed for trouble...
...thing, the weather has been bad, i.e., good.* There was an acute snow shortage. Days of bright sunshine softened the ski runs. Slush filled Cortina's streets. Flags of competing nations hung limp in the warm air. As the bobsled run slowly spoiled in the heat, national arguments developed over who should get a chance to practice. Italian Alpine troops were standing by to cart snow from colder slopes...
Tuned up by long training at Alma-Ata, Soviet ski center, Russian skiers and skaters were swift enough to break records even in practice. The Russian hockey team seemed strong enough to give both favored Canada and the U.S. a fight. Russian cross-country skiers looked unbeatable. Only in the Alpine events (downhill and slalom) did U.S. men seem to have a chance to pile up points. Skeeter Werner and Ralph Miller will carry the highest U.S. hopes, but Austria's Toni Sailer will probably whip the field. Andrea Mead Lawrence, who won the slalom and giant slalom...
Throughout most of the rest of New England ski conditions have left much to be desired. Middlebury Snow Bow and Mad River Glen are both rated as "fair to poor...