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...team, February is the ski season, as well as the climax of a training program that begins in mid-October on dry land and takes its skiers to New Hampshire and Vermont almost every weekend from Thanksgiving on, including a week-long Christmas camp in December With a total of only three meets on its schedule--on three successive weekends this month--the team has not had much of a chance this winter to ease up in its effort to qualify for the Division II championships next weekend in Syracuse...
...stoves is nearing crisis proportions In winter, when the mountain air sparkles and snow blankets the nearby hills, Missoula, Mont. (pop. 33,000), might easily be mistaken for an Alpine resort. Last week, however, it had the smogbound look of Los Angeles. A dismal haze cloaked the lumber community, virtually blotting out the slopes of the Bitterroot Range. Health authorities were forced to sound a week-long air pollution alert. They urged pregnant women, joggers and the elderly to stay indoors rather than risk breathing the foul air. Some children were not allowed out of classrooms during recesses. The local...
...this year is like previous ones, the so-called "fools" will elicit smatterings of laughter during the week-long initiation process. Editors tell fools the pranks are a prelude to a final election--which they reveal as a hoax at the end of the week...
...Queen's distinctly informal role fits the summit's deliberately improvised format. Almost the only rule of Commonwealth summits is that there are no written rules and no formal votes. Instead, the leaders, who represent one quarter of the world's people, gather for a week-long discussion about matters of mutual concern. The summit's closed-door sessions are conducted on a first-name basis and, of course, in English. Actions are taken only by consensus...
...native of Montana, the energetic, soft-spoken Hunthausen, 62, is known as the "peace Archbishop." He preaches unilateral disarmament, refuses to pay half of his income tax as a protest against Pentagon spending, and has denounced the local nuclear submarine base as the "Auschwitz of Puget Sound." During his week-long visitation, Hickey said he was not concerned with political issues but only with hearing out priests, nuns and parishioners, and among the 60 Washingtonians he spoke to there was no shortage of praise for Hunthausen; 252 of the 280 priests in the archdiocese signed a petition of support...