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...wild beauty of a ski run, the challenge of modern technique, or the elan of apres ski--three of the most rewarding aspects of the sport. The parallel christie is at once more attractive, more fun, and less dangerous than the stem turn; it facilitates controlled skiing on steep slopes as well as quick linked turns on narrow trails...
Sidewalks are filled with bundle-laden shoppers, and store windows beckon with imported washers, steam irons, refrigerators and TV sets. Outside town, barefoot peasants pad along the dusty roads with $40 Sony transistor radios slung over their shoulders. "Prices are steep," admitted one merchant, "but that's what people are paying." New Experience. Prosperity is a new experience for Guatemala, which scraped along for years in the banana-republic image-without industry, unable to import what it wanted, or even pay for what it did buy. During the regime of cantankerous old Ydígoras, graft and inefficiency, those...
Inexperience and the unusually flat five-mile Cortlandt Park course may also hurt Army. The young Cadets have been running up and down steep hills all fall at West Point and may have trouble adjusting to what may be a speed race today...
Like Warner, Hewlett will suffer from the landscape of the course. Walt's forte is endurance, and that quality is most important when a runner is faced with steep uphill grades. Also, Walt will be carrying the yoke of eight-race winning streak. All the other runners have lost at least once this year...
...important Ranger observation was the great number of small secondary craters that litter some parts of the moon. They seem to have fairly steep slopes that might topple any spacecraft that attempts to land on them. Dr. Kuiper thinks that regions splashed with rocks tossed out of big craters should be studiously avoided, but other parts of the lunar plains are probably smooth enough for landing. An encouraging sign is the comparative scarcity of small primary craters blasted by meteor impacts...