Word: snowing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they are merely prodigious leapers!') collide with the grim fantasies spawned by anxiety ("Perhaps there will be an earthquake and we won't have to take exams"). One sits at a chair and looks out the window. Cambridge does not even have the grace to be covered with snow ("What if Harry Levin actually wrote the plays of Shakespeare?"). Sulphur-laden ice spreads like cancer over the Charles and Roast Beef Specials cost 60c ("If the Atlantic rose a few inches, Boston would be devastated and there wouldn't be any exams...
...when she was 16, finished an unimpressive 22nd in the downhill. By 1964 at Innsbruck, she was up to 7th in the downhill. At Portillo last year, she was rated a cinch for a gold medal, after beating everybody in practice. Then, in the downhill, she slammed into a snow-packed retaining wall at 60 m.p.h., badly bruising her right arm. "She couldn't even lift her arm," recalls her coach, Verne Anderson, "but we couldn't keep her out of the giant slalom, so the doctor shot her full of Novocain, and I taped her ski pole...
...hoped that he will, but he may not. The present, after all, is a ghost of less substance than the unmelting snows that mantle his youth. "The snow is real," he writes, imagining some long-ago blizzard, "and as I bend to it and scoop up a handful, 60 years crumble to glittering frost-dust between my fingers...
...Christmas-New Year's holiday is the big week for skiing, and right across the nation, resorts were strained to capacity - including those in Vermont, where a Christmas Eve storm dumped two feet of snow on slopes that had been brown. For New England skiers and resort owners, the last-minute reprieve was nothing short of miraculous...
Still equipped with its four-wheel drive, the Jeep appeals to the outdoors-minded (notable Jeepniks: Lyndon Johnson, Hubert Humphrey and Sargent Shriver), who rig it for such chores as plowing snow or use it for wheeling around a ranch. Recently, however, despite frequent refinements and the introduction of the station wagon and light-truck Jeeps, Kaiser's grip on the domestic market has been weakened by a couple of upstart Jeep-style sports models: International Harvester's Scout and Ford's Bronco. Moreover, the profit margin on sales to the military, still a large chunk...