Word: skying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...part of our staff. When New York Correspondent Marion Knox was assigned to cover the chilly plight of snowbound Buffalo (see THE NATION), she found that trains had stopped running, all highways were shut down, and no flights were landing at the Buffalo airport. Bundled up in her heaviest ski parka, Knox caught a flight to Rochester, the nearest functioning airfield. From there she hopped a truck carrying 35,000 lbs. of frozen veal, part of a two-mile-long caravan taking emergency rations to the stricken city. "Buffalo was a mess," she reports-streets unplowed, cars buried in snow...
Among other items in nationwide short supply and fierce demand in this killing winter are woolen underwear, blankets (wool and electric), flannel shirts, wool socks, parkas, mittens, gloves, mufflers, ski pants, goggles, hand warmers, car batteries, weather stripping, calking guns, firewood, woodburning stoves, electric heaters, and radios with the weather band that tells you how frightful today is going...
...Ski Mount Sinai...
...Harvard ski team opened its carnival season with a thud--the sound of a team finishing last in a field of 11 colleges at Vermont last weekend...
...Radcliffe ski team finished an impressive third in a field of seven at St. Lawrence over the weekend in its first Division II appearance...