Word: backpacking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hits the comeback trail and takes up with a backpack bohemian (Christina Ferrare) who crafts peace emblems out of licorice whips and plies him with soybeans "for high protein." Whether spurred by love or the soybeans, J.W. works himself up to No. 2 rodeo rider in the nation...
Family Sport. Ski tourers come in all sizes, sexes and ages. Steve Rieschl, who teaches skiing at Vail, says: "They're the same people who canoe, sail, backpack and camp. It's really a self-propelled sport." A novice tourer at Vail over Christmas was Wellington Koo, 84, formerly China's ambassador to the U.S. (1915-20 and 1946-56), who grew so enthusiastic over his first lesson that he summoned seven members of his family to join him on the slopes the next day. At Snowmass (Aspen), West Los Angeles Housewife Helen Mandel-so unathletic that...
Kilbourne is now trying to develop a small backpack engine that the flyer can wear to create his own thrust when the wind dies down. With a few more improvements like that, he will have invented the airplane...
Bearing a 14-lb. orange backpack and wearing an orange windbreaker, Mrs. Bruyn trudged along lightly traveled roads, stopping each night at the homes of prearranged hosts. While her husband, a sociologist at Boston College, stayed home to keep house and be with their children, Mrs. Bruyn quietly explained her feelings about the war to friendly truckers, construction workers and schoolchildren along the way. "The vast majority of the people were with me," she reported. "I was called a traitor only three times...
...besides, I'm scared. I'm leaving tomorrow. Soldiers ask politely what brings me to town, and I say I am an archaeologist. They seem to believe me, but they give me some funny looks. No one ever looked more the romantic guerrilla than I, with beard and backpack...