Word: skying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sophomores, Jonathan K. Chaffee and Mark A. Jensen, have been elected co-captains of next year's ski team...
Chaffes, of Adams House and Lyme. N.H., won the most laurels for this year's squad and proved to be the most outstanding skier. The former Junior National cross-country runner came in third in the Eastern Intercollegeiate Ski Championships and took first place in cross-country at the St. Lawrence Carnival. Chaffee's performance in the Easterns marks the first time Harvard has finished in the top five places...
...broken skies, one sprained ankle, and a lack of experience doomed the Harvard ski team to a ninth-place finish in the NCAA Championships at Dartmouth last Friday and Saturday...
...Chaffee, the cousins who had carried the team for most of the season, both ran into bad luck in the meet. Jon broke a ski on the cross-country track and finished a disappointing 37th. Kim sprained his ankle when he crashed into a gate on the giant slalom course, and was unable to compete in his specialty...
...close to 1,800, most of whom hire themselves out to ranchers, and a good hunter can earn up to $70 a day. To these gunslingers, the "sport" is more than mere extermination. One U.S. clothing manufacturer placed an order for $140,000 worth of kangaroo skins to make ski clothes; the animal's meat is sold as a delicacy in Japan, can be found as pet food in Sydney shops at 23? a can. Some consider this a waste. "In kangaroos," says Basil J. Marlow, curator of mammals at the Australian museum in Sydney, "you have a valuable...