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Similarly, Mount Mansfield is noted for the death and regularity of early season snow found there, although last year at Christmas time there was more rain than snow. The Nose Dive trail, rated for experts. will be the principle stamping ground for the squad, while the open slope has been recently enlarged for less experienced skiers...
...potato patch stretch nets of trip wires leading from guns and mines. The slope is honeycombed with tunnels, dugouts, telephone centers and munitions dumps. Dozen upon dozen of mortar shells still stand there, packed in boxes. . . . Here, beside piles of stretchers, is a great plot of turned-up earth, 400 yards square, where the Germans had swiftly buried their dead as they withdrew. A Russian anti-tank gun, wreathed in boughs, now stands there...
...head X-ray man and physiotherapist for the Medical Room, has been taking plates ever since 1935, and it was he who put Conant under the "camera" several years ago to see if any bones had been cracked when the President's giddy career down an icy slope came to a sudden...
...length came a morning when Habe, at his observation post, saw the opposing slope mushroom brazenly with helmetless German heads, and their officers, calm on the skyline with spread maps, pointing at him with gloved fingers. The French had no ammunition. Later his phone went dead. He and his two companions realized that everyone had withdrawn behind them. They faced 60,000 Germans. Carrying their 250 pounds of observation equipment-"we were three soldiers unable to lose confidence in the army in a single night"-they retreated...
...game, wooden pegs (kangaroos) are used instead of balls and they are driven from a portable, slope-topped wooden tee-the projecting end of the kangaroo is struck with a sharp downward chop to send it jumping as in tiddlywinks. A set costs $12.50. There are four different-shaped kangaroos: the Turtle (for distance), the Speeder (for an accurate second shot), the Flash (to get over a high obstacle), the Torpedo (for a stop-dead approach or putt). Players carry their kangaroos in a canvas pouch not unlike a carpenter's apron...