Word: skying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...clock one morning last April, the five-man crew of an isolated oil-drilling rig near Chickasha, Okla., was suddenly surrounded by three bandits wearing ski masks and brandishing shotguns. Without uttering a word, the gunmen removed twelve tungsten carbide drill bits worth about $27,000 from the rig's storage shed and then fled with their booty in the crew's pickup truck...
Last December a man wearing a ski mask and carrying a shotgun broke into Richard Morgan's San Francisco Bay-area home. Morgan, a burly Teamster, managed to chase him away and get his license number. But after the suspect was arrested and released on bail, police say, he threatened Morgan over the phone, assaulted him in the courthouse hallway and stole one of his dogs. Finally, the suspect tried to blow Morgan up. Returning to Morgan's house late one night in mid-August bearing 75 sticks of dynamite, the suspect was scared off by barking dogs...
...sport (they estimated the cost of their flight at $125,000), the fact that all are wealthy also helped. Newman is president of Electra Flyer Corp., one of America's largest hang-glider manufacturing companies. Abruzzo is a land developer who is also president of the Sandia Peak Ski Co. He and Anderson, the president of a uranium and copper mining company, have been ballooning together for years and have had their share of adventures-once clearing Pikes Peak by just...
Although state officials shut down the ski lift on 14,162-ft. Mount Shasta last April, intrepid skiers and snow bunnies are still skimming down high-altitude snow fields that are up to 25 feet deep. State officials welcome the snow pack for another reason. Explains Bill Clark, spokesman for the department of water resources: "It's like having water in the bank." Backpackers complain the snow is hindering their hiking into parts of the Sierras they were barred from visiting last year because of the high fire danger...
...every taste, from used goods to discounted, discontinued lines of new merchandise. Aficionados claim that the larger markets offer one of everything ever made and two of everything Woolworth ever sold. There are Army uniforms, ladies' spats, metal detectors, Roosevelt buttons, Wallace buttons, Nixon buttons, toilet seats, hubcaps, ski boots, gum ball machines, telephones, dried fruit, perfumes, crutches, jump ropes and Christian Dior shirts...