Word: skying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...days when most Americans thought a lift was a ride and schuss meant "Be quiet," the country's few ski slopes were as warm and friendly as the air was cold and forbidding...
...Some ski maneuvers and pursuits through the mountains here reminded me of the underwater sequences in Thunderball: figures keep gliding around in strange, ethereal patterns -- supposedly bellicose, but seemingly choreographed. Identities blur hopelessly...
...Irene Galitzine, and visiting some of her other noble friends. In a cape and a white chiffon gown, she attended a dinner party at the 15th century palazzo of Prince Aspreno Colonna, next day bought toys for Caroline and John-John. Flying back to Switzerland to rejoin the family ski outing at Gstaad, Jackie took some other special gifts: a rosary and Vatican stamps that Pope Paul gave her for the children during a private 15-minute audience...
...brushes with death." Actually, in his only major accident so far, in 1958, he got off with a badly broken nose. The real Eugenio Monti is a short, slight, 38-year-old Italian who prefers Coca-Cola to Chianti, goes to bed at 9, earns his living as a ski-lift operator, and hasn't any idea how he happens to be the world's best bobsledder. "I cannot explain it," he says. "I can only...
...world championships, plus two world titles in four-man sleds. The streak came to an end at the 1964 Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria, when Britain's Tony Nash won the two-man race in a damaged sled that Monti had helped repair. Monti decided to retire to his ski lifts at Cortina d'Ampezzo in the Dolomites...