Word: skying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although his office is filled with ceremonial symbols of Austria's imperial past, Kreisky has been a most unregal Chancellor. He freely mingles with the public without a bodyguard, writes innumerable thank-you notes, and waits his turn in line for the ski lift when on vacation. He also hobnobs with Vienna's most brilliant intellectuals and artists. The ease with which he mixes with all strata of Austrians has made him his country's most popular postwar Chancellor, so much so that a Kreisky-souvenir industry has blossomed-complete with Kreisky piggy banks, T shirts...
...cannot afford to make heroes out of men who simply ski, golf, watch eagles and sing trite songs...
...said that Allende went to school with the head of the Chile ski federation and had personally supported the extensive effort to buy equipment for the children...
Although the whole ski team went to the summer season in South America in 1972, only Bryn Evensen '74 and Martha Malkin '76 could afford to accompany Carter this summer. The other members of the team worked this summer to save enough money to go next year...
...Bryn [Evensen] was very consistent--he wasn't right at the top, but he didn't crash much," Carter said. Evensen beat World Cup skier Roland Thoeni of Italy in the Kandahar of the Andes downhill race. Thoeni's cousin, Gustavo Thoeni, was the World Cup ski champion last year...