Word: slalomers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...began Friday morning when the team's van broke down in the sub-zero weather at its training site in Henniker, N.H., and included two flat tires, a dead battery and lack of lodging. The team arrived by various methods only ten minutes before the start of the slalom at the Dartmouth Skiway...
...Crimson managed an overall sixth in the slalom race with Eric Klaussen leading the way in 14th place, and an eighth in the cross-country as Andy DeMars finished a strong 20th. But the giant slalom and the jumping events did Harvard in, despite David Rand's jumping performance that brought him a second-place finish in the nordic combined scoring system...
...object falling off a truck. When C.U. drivers tried it, the car fishtailed alarmingly and failed to recover. When Chrysler re-created the test for an audience of reporters at its proving grounds in Chelsea, Mich., the company's driver threaded the car flawlessly through a slalom course around pylons...
...after another, a minute apart, the slalom contestants were launched by the starters. The downriver course began just above the railroad station where Teddy Roosevelt happened to be in 1901 when he learned that William McKinley had been assassinated and he was about to become President of the U.S. Spectators clustered around the most hazardous stretches of the river, like the Spruce Mountain rapids, just as auto-racing fans flock to the most dangerous turns...
Right below Gate 16 in the giant slalom, the Hudson foams into a fury of white water. A boulder, an obstacle that was a legend to the contestants, rises 2 ft. out of the river, churning the currents into a whirling eddy. All afternoon the competitors, young and old, hurtled down, striving to swerve their boats around it The better racers changed directions nimbly; the novices-faces distorted by fear -dug frantically at the water...