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...same tenacity makes him one of the toughest skiers on the mountain. He started skiing at two in the deep snow of the Cascade Mountains, where his parents ran a ski resort at White Pass, Wash. A gifted athlete, he has made himself into a downhill racer, even though the slalom and giant slalom are his natural events. In an age of specialization, he has become a genuine contender in all events. Can he win a gold at Lake Placid? Says Mahre: "So many things can be a factor. The snow, the weather, is it warm so that waxing...
...Garrity sat slumped in the corner, head down, muttering softly to himself. Tom Murray, back against the concrete wall, lay motionless. His eyes closed, he tried to wash the painful image away...
Despite such intrigues and atmospheres, Yellowfish is no ordinary thriller with grand scenery and exotic characters. Novelist Keeble, 35, a teacher and rancher from Medical Lake, Wash., is out to evoke an entire region. His eastern Washington, "a country of high desert, sage brush, pine, rivers and basalt extrusion," is a palimpsest of Indian legend, the ragged footprints of pioneers and the restless ghosts of Joaquin Miller, Frank Norris and Jack London...
Douglas' fierce individuality and his support of the little man grew out of a boyhood of poverty in Yakima, Wash. To help support his family, he labored as a field hand alongside migrant workers; he climbed mountains to rebuild legs weakened by polio. It was on these hikes that Douglas developed a love for the wilderness that he would later celebrate with dozens of books on travel and wildlife. Throughout his career, he would flee the U.S. capital to return to the Western mountains or explore remote areas of the world from the high Himalayas to the Dead...
...Senate Armed Services Committee has already approved a bill to revive registration, Richard Cocker, press secretary for Sen. Henry Jackson (D-Wash.) said yesterday...