Word: skis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wide World of Sports (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). Ski championships from Aspen, Colo...
Looking like a chubby chipmunk in blue snow pants, the Prince of Wales manfully herringboned his way through his first ski lessons at the start of a ten-day snow holiday in Schuls, Switzerland. Prince Charles, 14, took his first lesson in private on a secluded slope, demonstrated enough prowess for lesson No. 2 to be a more public affair. Beamed Instructor Gisep Heinrich: "His Royal Highness has been doing very well today...
...Ski jumping is something like walking on water-the first step is the hardest. The view from the top is discouraging: the ice-slick starting slope falls away at an abrupt 35° for take-off speeds up to 60 m.p.h.. and the ambulance at the end of the landing run seems so far away that it might be a Tootsie Toy. Once a jumper starts, there is no turning back: a wobbly takeoff, a sudden updraft. a slight miscalculation can mean a bone-shattering spill -and many a star of this perilous sport admits to frequent tussles with...
...Oberstdorf, he turned in the longest jumps of the day. On his very first jump at Innsbruck's Berg Isel ski jump, site of next year's Olympic jumping, Engan broke the hill record with a 298-ft. jump. Fog and snow made a nightmare of Germany's Garmisch-Partenkirchen a few days later. But Engan still went 292 ft.-16 ft. past the "critical point." or safety limit of the hill. After the first three hills, he had the championship sewed up. "All he needs," said a competitor, "is to toss his shoes over the edge...
...bars were closing. The stars dazzled down out of the freezing sky, a few youths weaved along the street, steam rose slowly from the outdoor swimming pools, a tall ski instructor carried a ravishing blonde out of the Molly Gibson, and somebody slipped on the ice amid a roar of laughter...