Word: skis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...qualms last month when he joined the nation's 3,500,000 skiers. A recently retired California forester, he aimed to enjoy the outdoors even more than he had as a state employee. But as Jacobson, an advanced skier, whooshed down a slope at Sierra Ski Ranch, he lost control, hit a tree and broke his left elbow, shoulder blade and four ribs, which punctured a lung. Now incapacitated for at least two months, he has become an unhappy statistic-one of this year's roughly 100,000 injured U.S. skiers, more than a third of them with...
From a strictly medical standpoint, skiing makes no sense. "The odds are not with the participant at all," says Orthopedist James Garrick, head of the University of Washington's division of sports medicine. Dr. Garrick is so concerned that he is participating in a conference on ski injuries to be held this week in Aspen, Colo. The agenda includes such abstruse topics as "Rotational Instability and Its Repair" and "The Biomechanics of Tibial Fractures in Skiing...
...engineering argot is appropriate. According to Garrick, the ski acts as a lever, accentuating the effects of any twisting motion on the leg. Even a slow fall on a beginner's slope can produce a fracture. In fact, it often does. "The typical ski injury," says Garrick, "involves a woman around 18 to 20 who is just beginning. As she makes a turn maneuver on a gentle slope, she goes down in a slow, twisting fall. She feels something snap; she has fractured the shaft of her tibia and fibula, the two bones of the lower...
...with his handsome wife Louise and daughter (his other daughter is married) in a pillared $150,000 house in the exclusive River Oaks section and hobnobs with Houston's social elite. He owns two cars (a Corvette and a Cadillac) and likes few things better than to water-ski in the wake of his 17-ft. power boat...
...brother Philip was teaching in an all-black New Orleans high school, to work with CORE. On a 1963 trip to Europe, Daniel became fascinated by the catacomb Christians he met in Iron Curtain countries. He returned lean and ascetic in a breezy new uniform?a black turtleneck sweater, ski jacket and beret...