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...ordeal began on Jan. 30, when a party of eight climbers headed by Colorado's Gregg Blomberg, 25, landed by airplane on Kahiltna Glacier, 7,250 ft. up McKinley's west slope. Less than 24 hours later, France's Jacques Batkin, who was bringing supplies to the base camp at 7,600 ft., plunged 50 ft. to his death in a crevasse hidden by snow and ice. Dr. George Wichman, an orthopedic surgeon and amateur mountaineer from Anchorage, Alaska, saw him fall. "One minute Jacques was there," recalls Wichman. "He was hauling his load, chest thrown...
...fashioned skiing may still be the best way to whoosh down a snowy slope, but thrill seekers are rapidly inventing new-fashioned ways of descent. Just as snowmobiling has become the latest U.S. fad (TIME, Feb. 17), the sport of ski bobbing has caught on in Europe. Ski bobs range in price from $100 to $150, look like small bicycles on skis, weigh about 17 lbs., and can readily be dismantled to fit into car trunks. The tubular metal frame has handle bars connected to a short pivoting ski in front, and a well-padded saddle moored to a longer...
...answer has had to be based on precedent. Ever since Wright v. Mt. Mansfield Lift, Inc. in Vermont 16 years ago, it has been held that the skier assumes certain obvious risks when he starts down a slope. If he is unfortunate enough to run smack into a stump or a buried fence, it is usually considered not to be the fault of the stump or the stump's owners. Conversely, when a skier is heading uphill on a lift, the lift owner is usually liable for any injury suffered because of mechanical collapse or breakdown unless the injured...
...this Imperial "a traveling board room." The sporty Barracuda, which had been hurriedly fashioned out of a Valiant base in an effort to meet the challenge of Ford's Mustang, sold badly last year. This year Barracuda's fastback has been modified with a 'more abrupt slope (the long, tapering fast-backs are on the way out in Detroit), the back of the car has a sportier slab look, and air vents (false) have been added to the hood...
Competition had not even begun at Portillo when disaster hit the U.S. team. Zipping down a slope at 60 m.p.h. in practice, Kidd lost his balance, skittered 200 yds., and snapped both bones in his right leg. Colorado's Jim Barrows injured a knee and an elbow, had to be scratched from the men's downhill; Idaho's Walter Falk fell during the race and suffered a concussion. The bright young star of the women's team, California's 16-year-old Penny McCoy, did give the U.S. one medal - its only one -when...