"What can a ski bum contribute to Roff and Sons?" he asked.

“一个滑雪迷能给罗菲父子公司做出什么贡献吗?”他问道。

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He was an American Literature major at Middlebury College who loved the outdoors, and who thought about several appropriate careers for himself as he was graduating: fishing boat guide, ski bum, writer for outdoor travel magazine.

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He was, by turns, part of an air rescue squad during the Vietnam War, founder of what became the nation's largest custom-prosthetic-device company, a ski bum, a bureaucrat in the Carter Administration and a stockbroker for Prudential-Bache Securities.

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