Word: skying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weekend after exams, the Harvard Ski Team journeyed to Williams-town to take part in the eight-team ski meet which was part of the carnival weekend at Williams College. The team managed to place fifth (despite the exam period lay-off, and the obvious inability to practice steadily.) Above and left are team members competing. Below left is a fraternity sculpture, while at right Coach Jaccaci confers with captain R. Masueen Perkins...
WHILE many competitors devoted their evenings to careful preparation of their skis before the next day's events, the carnival provided after dark diversion for the multitude with such entertainment as the Weavers and Bo Diddely. Last weekend the ski team returned to the slopes with a visit to the winter carnival at Dartmouth. They fared slightly better in the Hanover competition, finishing fourth in a field...
...lick an old jinx: in 28 years of trying, no U.S. male skier has ever brought home an F.I.S. or Olympic Alpine championship. He may also have to beat the F.I.S.-which at week's end was threatening to cancel the championships because East Germany's ski team had been refused papers for travel in the West. But even if the F.I.S. cleared the slopes, Cyc Ferries would remain the most devastating cyclone on skis...
Fortnight ago, the University of Denver's skinny, asthmatic Charles Ferries, 22, was just another also-ran on the fiercely competitive European ski circuit. A member of the U.S. Alpine ski team since 1960, Ferries had won a couple of races in the U.S., none at all in the Alps, was noted mainly for a helter-skelter skiing style that neatly matched his nickname: "Cyc," for cyclone. But last week Cyc Ferries was the sensation of the 1962 season. He had scored successive slalom victories at Austria's Kitzbühel and Italy's Cortina...
...Ferries has been swooshing down snow-covered slopes ever since he was five. "We lived on a hill overlooking the town," he remembers. "It wasn't much of a mountain-just a ridge with a 400-ft. vertical drop. But grandma lived in town, and I used to ski downhill to pick up goodies." Still only a part-time skier, Ferries was good enough at 14 to place ninth in the slalom at the U.S. junior championships. In 1957 he packed off to Aspen, Colo., to polish his technique. He improved so quickly that he decided to risk...