Word: skying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While most teams will bring ten men to Middlebury, only eight Cantabs will ski. The Crimson line-up has been severely weakened by injury and by quitting. Jay O'Rear, one of Harvard's best slalom men, broke his back earlier in the season. Since then, the number-two jumper has left school, and the number-three jumper has quit the team to spend more time studying...
...Harvard ski team, fourth at the end of the Alpine and cross country competition, did not compile enough points in the jumping to prevent successful bids by St. Lawrence and Vermont to surpass the Crimson point total at the Williams Carnival last Saturday...
Harvard's John Boyle, competing in all four events, totaled enough points to grab second place in the ski-meister competition...
...first major quarrels within Chokel's group resulted from Sean Withro's work on franchised publications during the summer. He subfranchised the Ski Guide, which brought in about $4000, under an arrangement where the HarBus would get only 30 per cent of the money. After making the deal, Withro wrote to the other proprietors and let them know what he had done. "The whole roof came down over the Ski Guide," Withro said, "with Jeff [Chokel] phoning from Chicago and insisting on changing my decision." In September, Withro's decision remained basically unaltered and he agreed to do the billing...
...cushion vehicles and have sold several hundred to private buyers at prices between $3,500 and $4,000. Now a Canadian firm has raised the specter of a noisy Hovercraft in every garage. Ottawa's MHV Ltd. will soon begin to mass-produce two-passenger models that ski along as fast as 60 m.p.h. and cost less than a Volkswagen...