Word: skiing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...real California girl (San Francisco-born), but apparently your reporter didn't notice me because I don't drink orange juice (gives me hives), I don't bake in "the sun (gives me heat rash and sunburn) and I don't surf or ski (dangerous...
David Chappellet (Robert Redford), a tough kid from the wrong side of the Rockies, flies to Switzerland to replace an injured member of an American amateur ski team. His lot is a starting place at the back of the order, after other skiers have chewed up and rutted the downhill course. Still, Chappellet goes as though pursued by demons, and he wins a crack at an Olympic championship. Along the way he wrangles with his coach (Gene Hackman), makes the usual number of enemies, and sleeps with a couple of girls, one disadvantaged and one super-sleek (Camilla Sparv...
Amexco has also bought a 15% share of Club Mediterrannée, a chain of sea and ski resorts for the budget-minded, and it hopes to acquire a larger interest...
Saturday, November 1 WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). National "500" Auto Race from Charlotte, N.C., and an international ski-jumping championship from Planica, Yugoslavia...
Formidable Problems. Now the nation's rising awareness of ecology has moved scores of judges to listen. In the past summer alone, a federal judge delayed Walt Disney Productions' ski-resort scheme in California's Mineral King Valley until conservation groups can have their say in court. A six-lane highway planned to run along the Hudson River was stopped when conservationists cited an obscure law requiring congressional approval of any project involving a dike on an interstate navigable waterway...