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...Braden has never met a sport he didn't like. He runs a ski college in Aspen, and has made volleyball and badminton instructional videotapes. Using high-speed cameras and computers, he has analyzed and critiqued the techniques of such star athletes as baseball's Reggie Jackson, pro-football quarterback Steve Grogan and Olympic stars Al Oerter (discus throw) and Edwin Moses (hurdles). In tennis, his coaching helped launch the careers of Tracy Austin, Eliot Teltscher and Jim Pugh (a mixed-doubles winner at Wimbledon this year...
Meanwhile, the Vic Braden Ski College is gearing up for its third full year at Aspen's Buttermilk Mountain. Braden's critical eye was cast on skiing several years ago, after he and Melody returned from a ski trip confused by the variety of teaching systems they had encountered. Some seemed logical; others made no sense...
...send money, Tommy Quan decided to send himself. Until the Communists took over in 1949, Quan lived in a small village of 160 people not far from the Taishan County seat. Then at age 15, Quan and his family immigrated to Seattle. Eventually, Quan owned two thriving restaurants, a ski resort and "more real estate than I can keep track...
...London and to see just enough action to lend authenticity to The Young Lions, the epic war novel that made him famous; a middle passage in which he fritters away critical and popular esteem while pursuing the good life in Paris, the Riviera and, above all, Klosters, the Swiss ski resort that ^ he and the beautiful, occasionally talented people he drew to him made famous. The ending even produces the kind of Faustian moral that goes down well in popular fiction: the hero achieves a full measure of worldly success but at the cost of his artistic soul...
...Paula Sims said her 13-day-old daughter Loralei had been abducted from her Brighton, Ill., home by a man wearing gloves, a ski mask and a dark T shirt and carrying a gray revolver. Police who later found Loralei's body in a wood near the house were suspicious, but could find no evidence to disprove the story. But when Paula, now living in Alton, Ill., told police there last April 29 that her second daughter, six-week-old Heather, had also been kidnaped by a man wearing gloves, a ski mask and a dark T shirt and carrying...