Word: snow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Clothing is completely up to you, but make sure that you are warm enough. The sharpest and tightest pants with stripes on the sides don't help you in subzero temperatures unless you have long underwear. Snow bunnies may admire you beautiful haircut and lots of grease (kid . . .) in it, but frozen ears can harm this picture considerably...
...proper equipment -- boots that fit and correctly adjusted safety bindings. The type of ski itself is unimportant as this varies with snow conditions. However, the less proficient you are, the shorter are the skis required...
...main point about skiing accidents is that they are virtually always the skier's fault. The Supplement hopes that the comments above will permit you to test your skills and enjoy all the thrills of speed and swirling snow without tempting the Nemises of the slopes. The suggestions about safety are common sense and the physical fitness exercises are to improve your enjoyment of skiing without being a boring rigmarole...
Equipment for mass sports can be mass-produced, and American production techniques have finally caught up with the demand. The best recreational ski equipment -- from poles to parkas--is now American made. No longer must the fashion-conscious snow bunny pay $75 for stretch pants that won't develop baggy knees after one day's wear. American metal skis that, will last for years now cost little more and will perform much better than Austrian woods which are liable to break or warp. In short, the initial investment in ski equipment has been reduced to a reasonable figure in recent...
Turn an eye to the sky before skiing, the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Blindness warns weekend skiers. Snow blindness, though misnamed, can be a painful souvenir of too much time on the slopes without adequate visual protection...