Word: skying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SPORTS SPECTACULAR (CBS, 2:30-4 p.m.). The World Ski-Flying Championships from Oberstdorf, Germany, where the wind currents and the long, steep slope permit jumps of fantastic length. Plus the Duke Kahanamoku Surfing Championships from Hawaii...
...captaincy of Harvard's Nordic ski team is not the most gloried position in Harvard sports, but for Jon Chaffee '66 it was a chute to two years of skiing around the world, in an enviable version of military service...
Private Chaffee's first assignment will take him to Camp Richardson, Alaska, where the biathlon unit trains year-round. The members of the unit compete in many European ski meets, and selected members will represent the U.S. in next year's Winter Olympics at Grenoble, France...
Chaffee placed 10th in a field of 60 in the cross-country event in last winter's NCAA championships. He scored second-place finishes in the three big Eastern ski carnivals...
...biathlon is a twelve-and-a-half-mile ski race in which the competitors carry rifles and must stop four times to shoot at 10-inch targets 150 meters away. A skier is penalized two minutes for each time he misses one of the twenty targets...