Word: skying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...embrace a program of competitions among individuals and individual groups like hockey teams, not among national teams. In the events that interest American kids the United States athletes performed creditably. There was not a trace of evidence that any American kids were physically unfit. Indeed, we never had a ski team half so thoroughly prepared...
...Crimson ski team stumbled to a dismal last place finish in the St. Lawrence Winter Carnival last weekend, behind squads from Dartmouth, St. Lawrence, and Norwich...
...Crimson ski team's chances for a berth in the collegiate nationals should be much clearer after this weekend's St. Lawrence Winter Carnival...
...Chaffee is clearly the outstanding skier on the squad. His ninth in the downhill, eighth in the slalom and seventh in the alpine combined is all that stood between the Crimson and a disgraceful rout last weekend. Among the outstanding ski stars he eclipsed was St. Lawrence's world speed king C.B. Vaughn. In the Stowe Cup race Feb. 1 and 2, Chaffee finished 17th in the downhill against a field of the finest skiers in the east. The event was won by Rebel Ryan, nearly an Olympic team member...
Avarice. But changing attitudes toward psychiatry have resulted in changing doctrines in the courts. In a case that became a legal milestone, a ski-lift attendant failed to fasten the safety belt of a nine-year-old girl; she became hysterically frightened and displayed severe emotional symptoms. Explicitly overruling its earlier approach to "mere fright," the New York Court of Appeals in 1961 upheld an award for damages although the girl had suffered no physical harm whatever...