Word: skying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard ski team returned from the Dartmouth winter carnival last weekend having shown a slight improvement over the previous week's finish of dead last. At Hanover they finished tenth out of eleven schools, as Vermont continued its two year domination of the Carnival circuit...
What can you say about a team that goes from finishing third in a greater Boston ski league that encompasses Tufts, B.U. and B.C. one year, to finishing first in a Divison II meet, whose competitors include such traditional skiing powers as Bates and St. Lawrence the next? Well, how about "surprising"? Maybe "incredible...
...weekend came down to the cross-country race, and in the hope of picking up some badly-needed points, three alpiners opted for ironwoman roles and decided to ski the relatively flat seven kilometer track...
...weekend began inauspiciously as two Harvard skiers who were counted on heavily skied below expectations in the Friday morning slalom. Eric Jewett took a spill and managed a 22nd place finish, while Alan Hale was disqualified for allegedly trying to ski through a pole he was supposed to go around. Bruce Ballantine also survived a fall to come in 26th...
...trial was followed by a quick sentencing-and Claudine Longet, convicted of criminally negligent homicide in the gunshot death of her lover, Ski Champ Vladimir ("Spider") Sabich, was condemned to 30 days in the county jail. Although Longet pleaded with Judge George E. Lohr not to separate her from her three "very gentle and open" children, Lohr did not relent. To impose no jail sentence, he said, might "unduly depreciate the seriousness of the offense or undermine respect for the law." Longet chose not to appeal her conviction, but she told a phalanx of reporters that she had been unfortunate...