Word: skis
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Garbed like an Eskimo and puffing on a cigarette, the Duchess of Kent, 54, anxiously watched the British army ski championships at St. Moritz, Switzerland. Reason for her visible dismay was the performance of the team captain of the Royal Scots Greys-her son, the Duke of Kent, 25. The duke fell twice in the downhill, each time losing a ski, was disqualified in the slalom. Straight-faced the London Daily Telegraph: "The duke was none the worse for his experience...
Affable Art Tokle has no business even trying a ski jump, let alone winning meets. At 38, Tokle is an old, old man in the young daredevil's sport of taking a flying leap off a mountainside. Yet he is one of the most consistently successful of all U.S. jumpers, has won 17 of his last 19 meets at Bear Mountain, N.Y. Explains Tokle, "I improve with...
...Jersey carpenter, Art Tokle belongs to one of skiing's most remarkable families. His father was a Norwegian mining official, who raised every one of his 20 children in the sport, and skied himself until he was well past 70. Torger Tokle, Art's older brother, came to the U.S. in 1939 and gained sudden fame with a hellbent, arm-flailing style that looked atrocious but won him a flock of national meets before he was killed in Italy as a ski trooper in 1945. Kyrre Tokle, another older brother, was still jumping in informal meets...
...weeks before this issue went to press, reporters and photographers tracked their men down from San Francisco to Stockholm. Physicist Donald Glaser, who had gone to Stockholm to receive a Nobel Prize, was trailed from Stockholm to London to Geneva, where he was finally found relaxing at a ski resort. To TIME'S reporter, the few moments he finally had with Glaser added up to a "vest-pocket" interview. To the scientist, the care and thoroughness of TIME'S investigations into his life and his work made it seem as if he had been under surveillance "by armies...
Cronin also asserted the University's responsibility to maintain the land in its present status as a park where children ski in winter and play "baseball and football" in summer. The site is private, however, and these games technically represent trespassing...