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...jumpers, who kept their skis tightly parallel. Edwards finished dead last, but he may have been on to something. This year some of the best jumpers on the hills at Courchevel will be flying with their skis forming an ungainly but aerodynamic V shape. As innovator Jan Boklov, a Swede, has demonstrated, jumping in this manner improves lift and can lengthen jumps 16 to 23 ft. But "the landings are tougher," says French jumper Steeve Delaup. "You lose more control." He favors the traditional style...
...Tsongas publicly criticized the Governor's education cuts. Dukakis was startled. The two men are mostly unalike. Tsongas has an easy sense of humor and is far less stiff around people. His ready quips are regularly turned on himself. Often he tells audiences he is thinking of becoming a Swede. Tsongas rarely holds grudges. When staffers urge him to retaliate against renegers, he usually waves them...
...need to worry about his financial or social status in Abilene. Ike revered an older man, Bob Davis, who taught him how to play poker and how to net fish on the banks of the Smoky Hill River. Davis was illiterate. Ike's best friend was Everett ("Swede") Hazlett, son of an Abilene physician who lived in the affluent part of town. In his exuberance Ike rounded up companions for baseball, football and camping from anyplace. His most famous fistfight was with Wes Merrifield, and according to Ike himself, the fight went more than an hour, ended in a draw...
During a game against Sweden, Whyte crunched an opponent into the boards with a clean check that broke the Swede's collarbone. At 5-ft., 6-in., no one is going to confuse Whyte with Kevan Melrose, but for safety's sake, opponents better start ducking when they see number 10 coming...
PELLE THE CONQUEROR. A timid old Swede and his dashing young son find work on a 19th century Danish farm. Aided by stars Max von Sydow and Pelle Hvenegaard, director Bille August cuts a stern, colorful grand swatch of masterpiece cinema...