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Although state officials shut down the ski lift on 14,162-ft. Mount Shasta last April, intrepid skiers and snow bunnies are still skimming down high-altitude snow fields that are up to 25 feet deep. State officials welcome the snow pack for another reason. Explains Bill Clark, spokesman for the department of water resources: "It's like having water in the bank." Backpackers complain the snow is hindering their hiking into parts of the Sierras they were barred from visiting last year because of the high fire danger...
LIKE HOPE AND CRABGRASS, Richard Nixon springs eternal. Ever since the Great Fall in 1974, no matter how you tried to weed the fellow out, he was always there, always flashing the nervous smile from under the properly crinkled ski-jump nose, forever sweating in the midst of an air-conditioned world. And always reminding you that he ran your life for five eminently regrettable years. Still, until recently, there was always an element of "fun" in the game--every time Dick popped out from under his California rock, you could, hoe him right back under again with...
When it was all over, the people wearing ranch mink coats and silk suits got up from reserved seats and left the stadium. But the fans wearing sneakers and jeans and old ski jackets stayed in their standing-room sheep pens and refused to move. For the better part of an hour after the game, they remained where they were, bouncing rhythmically up and down, throwing whatever bits of paper they had forgotten to throw earlier, waving thousands of blue-and-white national flags and roaring, "Argentina! Ar-gen-ti-na!" To mark the occasion, antigovernment terrorists known...
Even pregnancy should not automatically deter the athletic woman. Most obstetricians advocate exercise, at least during the first and second trimesters. Dr. Marshall calmly watched his wife enter her first ski race when she was eight months pregnant. Says he: "I didn't mind seeing my wife even take a fall because the baby is very well protected." Last month, Wendy Boglioli, 23, a former Olympic champion, competed in the national A.A.U. 100-yd. freestyle competition while five months pregnant. She failed to place and felt unusually tired, but suffered no damage...
Investing a billion is a tiresome chore, even for a high-living heir who has spent fortunes on blondes (he has married and divorced two of them), villas, Alpine ski resorts and hunting retreats. He also owns a 124-ft. yacht and a Grumman Gulfstream jet, which whisk him to his favorite playgrounds at the Lyford Cay Club in the Bahamas, the ski slopes at Snowbird, Utah, and the big-game preserves of Kenya and Alaska...