Word: sport
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crutch and cast are notorious aftermaths of the ski weekend. Not only pain and inconvenience result for the individual concerned, but also he often is unable to participate in his favorite winter sport until next season...
...football is a contact sport, and pain and risk are an integral part of the game. It is the job of the trainers and the doctors, as well as the equipment designers and the coaches, to alleviate the pain, reduce the risk, and assure that cases like Al Buder's are as few as is humanly possible...
Skiing should be more enjoy-able--and more enjoyed--this year than ever before. Major improvements in area facilities, highways, and equipment, plus the impetus of last winter's Olympics portend an increase in the sport's already phenomenal growth rate of 25 per cent each year...
...Mass Sport...
With almost a half-million skiers on New England slopes last winter, it is clear that skiing must now be classified as a mass sport. While the 1960 Olympics at Squaw Valley established America's ski terrain as equal to Europe's best, the 1964 games proved that American skiers were on a par with the crack Europeans. Olympic publicity in 1960 boomed interest in the sport the following winter, and there is every reason to expect the coming season to benefit in the same...