Word: skis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard ski team's season ended on the same dismal note it began, with four Crimson skiers who compete as individuals finishing way out of the money in the National Collegiate Athletic Championship Ski matches held last weekend at Franconia...
...Larry Carter, who rated an excellent chance to place in the Alpine, was the first of the Harvard skiers to meet with bad luck. "He was handling the slopes well in the giant slalom." coach Bill McCollom explained. "when he must have clipped the top buckle of his ski boot with his pole. The buckle came undone and Larry lost control of his skis. He took quite a spill...
Generally, however, ski enthusiasts are proving difficult to scare off. In Austria's famed Arlberg skiing center, where vacationers have been stranded by avalanches that covered both roads and railroad tracks, authorities have sent in helicopters to evacuate those who want to leave. For every skier who pays the $14 tab for a ride out, another happily antes up the same fare...
...Ski pistes may be closed, and whole villages may be evacuated on a word from the Weissfluhjoch. Even the Swiss air force checks with the institute before sending its supersonic Mirages aloft during the avalanche season, seeking reassurance that sonic booms will not cause unsuspecting villagers to be engulfed in a deadly white tide...
Woodstock West. Inside, raked muck mixes with mischief. A high school student describes S.D.S. arm twisting. Freelance Writer Hunter Thompson portrays French Ski Champion Jean-Claude Killy as a Chevy promoter (and describes Playboy magazine, which rejected the piece, as "a conspiracy of anemic masturbators"). There is a thoughtful history of Biafra, a long biography of Gangster Mickey Cohen by the late Ben Hecht, even a serialized comic strip. "The first number was supposed to be 80 pages," says Zion, "but we went up to 136 because we just didn't want to kill the stuff...