Word: toboggans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...patroller, he was unsurpassed. "On an accident," Jim says, "I would take him with me before I'd take anybody. He was an excellent skier, and he could handle a toboggan as well as anybody. Next to skiing, though, the most important thing in patrol work is how well you can relate to a person, especially a person in distress. All those people were very extroverted, and able to really communicate with accident victims, and help them through hard times--calm their fears...
...keeps in touch with Mary Lyn. He is still a senior patrolman at Winter Park, and he skis there every Christmas and every spring, taking injured skiers gently down the mountain, cradled behind him in an aluminum toboggan that whispers as it rocks through the snow. Mary Lyn and Jim talk late into the evening in his cabin sometimes, then hug and say goodnight. Mary Lyn drives off in her Vega. Jim trudges through the snow to his Jeep and connects an extension cord to the plug sticking out of the grille, starting a heater which will keep the engine...
...called Alpine Slides was installed for $400,000 last year at Bromley Mountain in Vermont and drew more than 170,000 riders at $2.75 each. There are now 18 of the German-designed tracks in operation, some with nighttime sledding. The one-man plastic chariots on the twisting, toboggan-like runs go up to 25 m.p.h., but can be braked to a halt. Who needs snow...
...obsessed person. I'm obsessed by the picture's content, whether this disease of ours can permeate the air, change people, make some imprint. It's something that you don't want to do every day because it is sick. It's like you're on a toboggan and you're going down a hill and you don't give a damn about anything as long as you can do this one thing. We've broken ourselves, broken our lives, gone into debt but that's the least of it. We break all relations, all ties with anyone else...
Emitting a couple of uninhibited shrieks, Mrs. Mark Phillips clung to the toboggan her husband was expertly maneuvering down the fast hill. Having arrived safely at the bottom, Princess Anne regained her composure as she and Mark mingled with the guests at a winter-games party thrown in their honor by Canadian Governor General Jules Leger at Ottawa's Governmenl House. Obviously enjoying their second official visit abroad together, the Phillipses even made a little history. Where Anne dropped the puck at a hockey game in Hull, Quebec, it marked the first royal visit to the French Canadian province...