Word: slaloming
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...leaving the steps on Weeks Bridge unshoveled, the parties to the agreement believe that Harvard students can be given a chance to practice the slalom on the banks of the Charles. The footbridge over Soldiers Field Road is being fitted as an ice-skating rink, and the sidewalks near Kresge are being left covered with snow so that students can limber up by dodging cars in the street. The pile of snow blocking the gate to the parking lot will be left for people to use as a ski jump. Such cooperation between the University and state authorities is indeed...
...anticipated, St. Lawrence's C.B. Vaughn swept the slalom, giant slalom, and alpine combined. Vaughn, one of the foremost non-Olymipic skiers in the East, currently holds the world's skiing speed record at 106 miles per hour...
Vaughn negotiated the short, steep, slalom course only .8 seconds faster than Harvard's Kim Chaffee, the runner-up. Mark Jensen was tenth, Fred Noyes was 13th, and Riccardo Peccei was 15th for the Crimson...
...giant slalom, Chaffee tied for fourth with John Ciman of Dartmouth, while Jensen finished eighth. Coach Charlie Gibson was somewhat peeved that only two of his skiers were able to finish the course, though he blamed at least one of the tumbles on a defective binding...
...strong showing by the freshman team augurs great things for the future. The frosh whipped St. Lawrence and Norwich, dominating all events but the jump. Steve Blodgett, racing on the varsity giant slalom course, came within .3 seconds of Vaughn's mark...