Word: skying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...large, seemed to be the mood of the 90th Congress as it began its second session last week. The superficial conviviality of reunion coloring the first couple of days faded even faster than the suntans and windburns some members had brought back from Southern resorts and Northern ski slopes. The residual climate was grey, portending six or seven months of bilious dissension both among Democrats and between the parties, leading up to a rugged election season. Predicted Mike Mansfield, the spare-spoken Senate majority leader: "It will be a difficult session...
...crisis loomed as workmen at New Hampshire's Loon Mountain ski area found what they thought was steam escaping from the side of the mountain. They reported the phenomenon to the resort's general manager, Sherman Adams, 69, onetime assistant to President Dwight Eisenhower and an old hand at dealing with volcanic pressures. Adams investigated and found a hibernating bear in a cave. "I'll flush him out in the spring," said Sherm...
When the International Ski Federation issued its seedings for 1968, France's Jean-Claude Killy, 24, became the first skier in history to rank No. 1 in all three categories: slalom, giant slalom and downhill. Deservedly so. Last year the son of a Val d'Isère innkeeper won an astonishing 27 out of 32 events to make a shambles of competition for the World...
...Killy came in fourth behind Austria's Gerhard Nenning, another Frenchman and another Austrian. In the second big meet at Hindelang, he placed second in the two slaloms, both of which were won by Switzerland's unheralded Edmund Bruggmann. At après-ski parties, the buzz began: was something wrong with Killy? The answer from the French: don't be silly...
Starting this Wednesday, buses will leave Elsie's at 6 a.m., stop at the Wellesley campus, and then proceed on the two and one half hour ride to the ski area...