Word: skying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Alaska's 22,320-ft. Mt. McKinley, five University of Oregon students and two teen-agers called it quits. But as the climbers saw it, the trip was hardly a waste of time. At the 17,200 ft. level they found heaps of junk discarded by previous climbers-ski bindings, socks, even underwear-plus tons of paper blown round the mountain by 100 m.p.h. winds that rake its frigid slopes...
Head Over Keels. The boots, developed with the approval of the Royal Navy, consist of a pair of 30-lb., 4-ft.-long wood and polystyrene boxes, each hollowed and fitted with water-ski foot grips. Each box has a 3-in. keel and is painted dark red, with WALK NAVY lettered in white on the side...
...dinners. Power mowers whine all day Saturday, and on Sunday mornings the streets are full of prebreakfast car washers. Every suburb has its lawn bowls club, its public tennis courts and golf course, and many of the young elite are developing such affluent addictions as saunas, big-game fishing, ski weekends and even a little group...
...double irony is that propriety has now become its own parody. While the children of the league labor to prove how sober, hardworking, puritanical they are, the children of the Mayflower, dressed in a travesty of the 1930s' Italian-gangster wardrobe, are straining twice as hard (from Swiss ski lodges to Caribbean beaches) to prove they are, at heart, impulsive Latin playboys...
Mary Paget, ski coach and director of sports at Radcliffe, said. "Of course, I was very satisfied with the girls' performance this season. I've been satisfied with them every year...