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After enjoying skiing for 40 years, I was sad to read your story "Abominable Snow Suits" [Jan. 16] about slobs in poor physical shape who clutter ski slopes, with their skis out of control. They are almost ruining this wonderful sport by driving lift prices out of sight by suing ski areas...
Ever felt tempted on a snowy day to throw back your head and drink in some of those pure white flakes? Try to resist the impulse. After testing samples of snow from several Kansas City areas, Research Chemist David Roberts, a specialist in heavy-metal poisoning, discovered amounts of lead that measured six times the level specified in the Environmental Protection Agency's clean-water standards. Even water from the polluted Kansas River proved less leaden than the snow. According to Roberts, car exhausts and factories are spewing into the environment 1,000 times the natural level of lead...
Quaker mentor Kath Lawlor let neither the snow nor the lack of a restroom bother her. "We're sophisticated travelers," she claimed. "We don't let the elements bother us. We're like pioneers blazing a trail." Or, translated, anything's better than spending a weekend in Philadelphia...
Alas, the snow has forced the fans into action. Off the sofa and into the heat of battle. At Harvard, at least, the blizzard has turned a bunch of seemingly-lobotomized color TV radiation victims into participatory sportsmen...
THOUGHTS WHILE SHOVELING: For those of you who are missing the Dartmouth Winter Carnival because of the storm, have no fear. In case you didn't read the front page, Burriss Young is sponsoring his own snow-sculpting contest right here in Cambridge. Admittedly the Widener steps don't quite match the Dartmouth Ski Bowl for facilities, but the jumping has been excellent...