Word: skying
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Married. Kathleen Brown, 19, youngest of California Governor Pat Brown's four children; and George Rice III, 20, fellow student at Stanford University; in a civil ceremony in Carson City, Nev., after eloping from the ski lodge near Squaw Valley where they were weekending with her parents. Said the Governor: "It was a complete surprise. But I wish them all the happiness in the world...
...monetary migraines. The U.S. now has $96.9 billion worth of foreign investments and other assets: that is nearly double the $56 billion of foreign holdings in the U.S. American assets abroad range from giant factories to such enterprises as a mink farm recently opened in Korea, a ski lift run by two young expatriates in Berlin, and the two largest ad agencies in Brazil. World business has become so intertwined that European holdings in the U.S. are about as great as U.S. holdings in Europe. Such well-known companies as Capitol Records, U.S. Borax, Lever Bros, and Shell are European...
...SKI BUM by Romain Gary. 244 pages. Harper...
...spring of 1963, to hear Novelist Gary tell it, was the time when all the bright and earnest college kids in Europe were high on Pope John XXIII and nuclear disarmament. But Lenny, the ski bum, is not bright and earnest. He is bright and cynical, a young American who sees himself as fallout from the population explosion. On the lam from living, he finds escape only in the purity of the Swiss snow fields, where he maintains himself all winter by giving ski lessons, and sometimes his fair body as well, to rich ladies...
This is the fourth straight year that the Harvard ski-team has qualified for the Nationals. Although the sport has strong alumni support, skiing is not recognized as a major sport at Harvard, and the team has been unable to attend the national meets in years like this one when they have eben held out West. Alumni funds suffice to buy equipment for the Nordic events, but individual members are still foting the bill for boots, and Alpine skis. Team members and coaches supply the transportation on the long four-day weekends north to the carnivals. Coach Charles Gibson...