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With snow flurries on the way, skiing conditions at Thorn Mountain and Mount Sunapee in New Hampshire, Pleasant Mountain in Maine, and Claremont, Mass. are very favorable. Fifteen inches of base and about 5 inches of wet surface exist in most areas...
Jackson: Thorn Mountain: 6 inches wet surface. Good upper and lower...
They find something of both, and-far rarer in historical novels-they also find life, a world of real people, growing thick as thorn bushes across their tropic path. Van Sterteen falls in love with a Spanish girl so proud that she will marry him and bear his child, but will not lie and say that she loves him. At the end, she goes to her death for a brigand whose only caress was administered with a horsewhip. Saint-Benoist is caught up in a struggle to save his soul. Oldhorse, the man with a vision, drives...
...major sport with two seasons is track, winter and spring, and here again Yale has been the usual thorn in the Crimson's side. Another annual athletic truism is that Harvard's track teams improve considerably in the spring. Perhaps this is because of an increase of weight events in the warm weather version of the sport. Small, quiet Coach Jaakko Mikkola, a former Olympics javelin star, is a master at tutoring young and strong but untrained men in hurling the javelin, discuss, hammer, and shot...
German sledge hammers. Recaptured, he killed two guards with a rifle butt and escaped; recaptured again a few days later by a German patrol, he managed to persuade an enemy intelligence officer that he was an Irish revolutionary whose sole aim was to get back home and be a thorn in the side of the British. "Put me on a German ship," he begged, "and send me to Ireland ... [or] let me get to Spain, and there I'll find a ship...