Word: winter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lodge. Montana glacier, the ski team fills something of a gap. "In most things you do at Harvard, there isn't a sense of common purpose," he says. "On the ski team, you eat, sleep and train with these people. You live with them during the winter. There is a real sense of community on the team. The people are the finest in the world. I can't begin to say how much I've learned about myself and others, not to mention what I've learned about administrative responsibilities. We may be last in Division I, but that means...
...summer, a solo hike to the summit, though permitted, is impossible because of the number of other people. Crowds thin out significantly during winter, when severe weather locks the mountain in ice and snow, but solo-hiking is illegal. Baxter State Park winter regulations ban parties of fewer than four people from camping or climbing anywhere above the treeline. However, despite the rules, groups of one, two or three campers often attempt the climb. Last winter, rangers apprehended a pair of climbers; two weekends ago they caught Eugene B. (Gus) Yates...
...Yates got more out of the weekend than he'd bargained for. He originally climbed the mountain to surpass former experiences--Mt. Rainier, Mt. Anderson in the Olympics and extensive winter camping--and prepare himself for future climbs--Mt. McKinley this summer...
Since the winter of 1976, ABC has dominated television entertainment and sports. In an effort to establish ratings superiority in news, ABC asked the mastermind of its sports operations, Roone Arledge, to take over as news president. His contribution is the network's evening news program--ABC World News Tonight...
...search for the most beautiful girl in the world." Rip Taylor, a manic comedian, of no recognizable talent, hosts this obscenity in which six women, all of whom possess significantly less talent than Taylor, publicly humiliate themselves for a half-hour until a panel of "celebrities" (Edward Winter, Fred Travelena and "Dr." Joyce Brothers) judges one of them the winner. The winner receives, you guessed it, $1.98 in cash. About half the contest consists of Taylor's puerile remarks about the contestants. In the remainder, the "talent" competition, one contestant's act was to spit at the audience for about...