Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flags. The dots were ski fans, out to see the world's most dangerous ski race, "the American Inferno." The course runs in a four-mile drop from the summit over the 1,000-ft. headwall, through Tuckerman's Ravine and down a narrow wooded trail to Pinkham Notch, over 4,250 ft. below...
...faint cry of "track" floated down from the foggy heights. Dartmouth's Robert Stewart shot down the mountain's face, flashed narrowly through the ravine and across the flat into the tricky turns on the wooded trail. He was averaging better than 50 miles an hour...
...instructors feel they can teach better and even learn more without the bonds of a strict syllabus. Sarah Lawrence glances around at the changes is College education since it appeared on the American scene and cockily comments, "Harvard is little by little coming around to the Sarah Lawrence trail...
...dawn, deputies were blocking the roads, and rancher pilots for miles around were taking to the air to drop warning messages at houses without telephones, and to search roads and back trails. Later in the morning Ellis' car came bumping up the rough trail to the Andy Andersen ranch, 60 miles from the scene of his last killing. The owner, who was reading a note dropped from the air, got into his own car and skidded off to telephone the law as Ellis took refuge in Andersen's barn. Soon airplanes began landing on Andersen's sloping...
This week Lovellette & Co. were hot on the trail of another honor: the right to be the U.S. collegiate representatives in this summer's Olympics. The team blocking the path of Kansas' N.C.A.A. winners was, fittingly enough, Philadelphia's La Salle, winner of the recent National Invitation Tournament. In contrast to Kansas' one-man gang, La Salle is a five-man team of deft ball handlers and sharpshooters, though none of them matches Lovellette's scoring potential...