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WALLACE ("BUD") WERNER. 27. of Steamboat Springs, Colo., swooshed boldly through Sun Valley's downhill course in 2 min. 20.5 sec. to beat (by .9 sec.) Switzerland's Jos Minsch-winner of Innsbruck's pre-Olympic race. Next day. Werner won again in the twisting slalom. At Mount Alyeska, he beat Minsch in the downhill-only to lose by a bare .1 sec. to another American. Plagued with bad luck. Werner took an inglorious spill in the 1956 Olympics, had to sit out the 1960 games with a broken leg. He intends to make...
...cover the high cost of schuss and slalom, many young people become what are known-not derogatorily-as ski bums. Ski bums work to pay their way; they make up a major part of the labor force at the winter resorts. They fare better in the East, where they get room, board, lift tickets and a little extra money, than in the West, where they get only money, and not much of that. A few are adept enough to work as instructors, but most of Aspen's ski bums work in the bars, restaurants and shops...
Aided by a heavy numerical superiority and the presence of most of the members of their varsity ski team, Dartmouth edged Harvard 433.0 to 452.5 Sunday to break the Crimson's two-year win in the annual slalom competition...
More than 60 Harvard ski bugs are expected to make the trek this morning to Tuckerman's Ravine on the Mt. Washington slopes, New Hampshire, for the annual Harvard-Dartmouth Slalom...
...daredevil racing style. "In this game," he explains, "you can't afford to be cautious. You just have to go as fast as you can." Now Ferries has finally found the control to match his speed. At Kitzbühel fort night ago, he ranked eighth in the slalom after a mediocre 77.2-sec. first pass at the course. On his second run, Ferries clocked a sizzling 69.7 sec.-fastest time of the day-to eke out a .7-sec. victory over France's Périllat. Last week at Cortina, he picked...