Word: skying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...measure the growth of the Credit Society. To graybeards raised in a cash economy, the proliferation of goods and services that can be bought with credit is even more startling. Houses, cars, furniture, appliances, airline tickets barely begin the list. Rents at the Promenade Apartments in Los Angeles, ski-lift tickets in Aspen, Colo., taxi rides in St. Louis, veterinary services in Jacksonville, and treatment in the emergency rooms of Atlanta's hospitals can all be charged on credit cards. So can admission to a nudist camp in Yugoslavia, birth-control counseling by Planned Parenthood of Pittsburgh and funerals...
Despite the depletion of its already thin cross-country corps because of injuries, the Radcliffe ski team turned in an impressive third-place finish in last weekend's Bates Women's Invitational at Auburn, Maine...
Jewett will probably not ski this weekend, but Hubbard said the alpiners are in the best form they have been in all year...
...surprise for Harvard came in the giant slalom, when Phil Duff placed 11th in only his second Harvard ski race. Eric Jewett managed a 16th despite a fall...
Late last week a brown Volvo rolled through the snowy streets of a Vermont ski village and stopped in front of a restaurant, where TIME Correspondent Marlin Levin was waiting. A hazel-eyed woman got out and greeted Levin with a manuscript. She was Natalya Solzhenitsyna, 37, wife of the famed Russian author and exiled dissident, Alexander Solzhenitsyn. With their three children (ages 6, 4 and 3) and her 14-year-old son, the Solzhenitsyns now live and work in Vermont. At TIME'S request, Mrs. Solzhenitsyna wrote about the families of Soviet dissidents and what can be done...