Word: skis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CRIMSON second annual Ski Guide to New England is now available free of charge at 14 Plympton St. The Guide contains tips on places to go, how to get there, what to take and what to wear--for the veteran or the new comer...
Grow Up, Grownups. The notion that all this leaves no energy for fun is far from accurate. The more adolescents are challenged, the more energy they seem to generate. From coast to coast, high school students are still flocking to dances, football games, beaches, ski slopes and mountain trails. "They have the same old biological urges," says one teacher, "and they express them in the same old ways...
...worker showed the four wide-eyed Tibetan women how to scrub the walls and launder their clothes with newfangled soap; a Swiss cook taught them patiently to prepare Swiss-German food. There are also educators and schoolbooks, lessons in how to use knife and fork and in how to ski, a sport unknown in Tibet. The men have jobs, ranging from digging ditches to carpentry to house painting...
From Squaw Valley to Sugarloaf Mountain, the ski areas of the U.S. are studded with what look like oversized turkey coops. They are A-frame huts, which have become so popular as weekend ski lodges that manufacturers can scarcely keep up with the demand. All roof from the ground up, the A-frame's blizzardproof construction and snow-shedding silhouette make it ideal for ski country. Prefabricated A-frames can cost as little as $900 for a basic, small shell; another $900 equips them with heat and plumbing...
Bent on becoming a ranking European ski star, Karim Ago Khan, 24, scored a diplomatic sitzmark while working out with the Austrian national squad near Salzburg. Racing down a slalom run, the generally sobersided Karim veered off the marked course and bowled over an Austrian photographer who had chosen to ignore the Aga's refusal to permit pictures. When the collision was untangled, the victim took his mangled Minolta and gashed ski boot to the local police station, charging reckless skiing. But before a damage suit could be prosecuted, the spiritual leader of 20 million Ismali Moslems lammed...