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...intelligent man over ground in a calculated way at a high rate of speed, and the contest between man and road was like a living sport--taking place within the framework of his working, necessary life. Not in an artificial arena like the tennis court or ski slope or bowling lanes, but like the old cross country road races, this would be a test of who could get the fastest from point A to point B with only his wits and his car to get him there. The race would confer the status of outlaw upon all contestants, sure...
...skiers had just finished a week of training on the steep slopes, of Cannon Mountain, and were surprised by the shallow pitch of the slope chosen for the giant slalom. While they had been skiing well in Hampshire, the hard edging techniques that they acquired were not the fastest way down the flat OS course. Raines, Adler and sophomore Peter Anton finished a disappointing 29th, 31st, and 38th respectively. Peter Andersen of Dartmouth sporting a skin tight silvery blue downhill suit won the race with a technically superb...
...presidential campaign, who defeated Colorado's two-term incumbent Republican Senator, Peter Dominick. A sort of "Marlboro man" turned politician, the Kansas-born Hart stumped the state for 18 months in an endless switchback between the vote-rich "front range" and the lightly populated western slope The party is over, the day of having it all is gone," he told Coloradans, pledging to conserve the state's energy resources and work against any damaging exploitation of Colorado's oil shale "We lave an energy-rich state, and yet we have this fantastic scenic treasure with resources...
Centennial is intended as Michener's 200th-birthday present to the U.S. His setting is a small, fictional town, first called Zendt's Farm, then Centennial, on the eastern slope of the Rockies along the South Platte River in Colorado. His aim is to use the territory around the South Platte as a means of describing nothing less than the evolution of the American West. When he has disposed of prehistory, Michener introduces his first human character, an Arapaho warrior named Lame Beaver, born in 1747. By the time the book arrives at 1972-with doleful references...
...goes loco," Killer was saying. "The 17th was the crucial one. We went off the tee with a four-wood--it's really a two-iron shot, but Victor can't hit a two-iron--then we went with a little seven iron from 160 yards out on the slope. I knew when we made that six-footer for par we were all right. But we had to go with a driver off the tee at 18 because Weiskopf was only one shot back, and could turn around and birdie the hole...