Word: skying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Freshman ski stars Jay O'Rere and Alan Watson finished in the middle of an international field of 78 skiers at the National Alpine Championships held March 8, 9, and 10 at Crystal Mountain in Washington...
Weighed down with the rust of neglect, Threskiornis aethiopica--"Ibis" to you--soared yesterday into the jetstream. Witnesses to the event, which occurred soon after dawn atop the Lampoon edifice, felt the legendary bird would probably head toward ski country, where it was hoped a weekend of relaxation might serve to arrest seemingly irreversible heart damage brought on by years of Lampoon care...
With one race still remaining, the Radcliffe Ski Team has already clinched first place in the Women's Intercollegiate Ski Conference...
Since last December, the sewing machines of Duhamel girls hum away in a handsome glass-and-pine chalet at 4,921-ft. altitude in the mountain village of St. Sorlin d'Arves, near Grenoble of winter Olympics fame. To this small ski resort come groups of 40 workers from Harnes for four weeks of work and ski; they sew from 7 to 10 and from 4 to 6, get out on the slopes in between...
Back in Harnes, all employees are putting in half an hour work per day without pay for the rest of the year. The proceeds from this go into a kitty to pay for transportation, food and ski lessons. The French government, too, has pitched in. When Duhamel explained the project, Finance Minister Michel Debré agreed to waive about $9,000 in company taxes and social security payments a year. Thus, with a snow-and-sew fund of $60,000, St. Sorlin is expected...