Word: slaloming
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With glittering costumes and greased back hair the Crimson Ski Team assaulted Temple Mountain for the annual Charles Beebe Cup. The race, sometimes more reminiscent of a masquerade ball than a slalom,showed Harvard to have one of the strongest and definitely the craziest team in recent memory...
Senior Scott Johnson started the season by staking himself as the speediest at a slalom staged with Boston College during vacation. Though captain of the storming squad, studies stayed Johnson from Saturday's slalom. Counting on the strength of greater depth than any recent team, although lacking the services of graduated superstar Ben Steele, Carter says the squad should surpass any Crimson team of the last five years...
...Klonoff describes how he and his associates tested 64 volunteers to determine how pot puffing affected their driving. The test subjects-all between the ages of 19 and 31-were well educated and were also experienced drivers. They were asked to drive through a complex course that included a slalom through markers, a couple of tunnels, a number of turns and other maneuvers. The subjects were given two chances to drive through the course, and their scores were recorded. Then they were asked to smoke a marijuana cigarette and try again. In almost all cases, the test drivers...
Giant Strides. On a clear stretch of highway, Shaw skates with the grace of a slalom skier or dancer. With giant strides of legs and arms, head high, he races westward through the cornfields. One clearly senses that there is more driving him on than the headlines in local papers. For Shaw, there is another dimension of reality out there on the great American asphalt. "Coming down a long hill with the wind at your back and the road to yourself is a high," Shaw says. "It's a thrill you never forget." He sees considerable wildlife and often...
Died. Sir Arnold Lunn, 86, pioneering authority on skiing; in London. In the 1920s Lunn invented the modern slalom course, on which the skier executes all types of turns around markers set up in the snow. The Harrow-and Oxford-educated sportsman wrote a galaxy of volumes on skiing and such subjects as Communism, which he abhorred, mountaineering, travel and Catholicism, to which he was a zealous convert...