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Show THE EDITORS OF ROAD & TRACK UNANIMOUSLY CHOSE SAAB AS THE BEST SPORTS SEDAN FORTHE '80s. NOT BMW NOT AUDI. NOT VOLVO. SAAB. The editors of Road & Track magazine were asked to come up with "10 best cars for the '80s." We were flattered, but not very surprised, when the Saab 900 Turbo ended up on every editor's list ...... ... As for why, they just said, "We have all enjoyed its sporting characteristics on the road." So if you don't have the time to drive every top-perfor mance sedan on the market, start with the one preferred by those who did. The Saab 900 Turbo. THE MOST INTELLIGENT CAR EVER BUILT. Garff Motor Center State at 600 South SLC, Utah 84111 U.S. Ski Team picks Traeger's replacement Inez Aimee, a sales and marketing executive of National Football League Films the past 13 years, has been named executive director direc-tor of the United States Ski Team and U.S. Ski Educational Foundation, according ac-cording to E.A. Hammerle, president of the team and foundation. Aimee replaces Bill Traeger, who resigned the position after four years at the helm. "I think four years was enough time," said Traeger. The organization is moving smoothly and I want to move onto something else now. I think Aimee is an excellent choice, though. She has a lot of experience. Aimee joined NFL Films in 1965, shortly after the football league's marketing firm was organized. "My primary objective at NFL Films was to market our product, pro football, in as many different ways as possible beyond television," she commented, "no longer with the singular objective of promotion, but the added incentive in-centive of profit. "I hope to be able to use these techniques, skills and contacts to bring increased revenues, exposure and attention at-tention to the U.S. Ski Team now and in the future," she continued. Aimee is going to have her work cut out for her, judging from plans outlined last week by Hammerle. Major revisions and goals for the 1981-82 season were also announced, an-nounced, including a drive to raise $5 million for the team this year. Major fundraising efforts will be conducted throughout 30 cities during the upcoming up-coming year to reach this , goal, while additional corporate cor-porate sponsors will also be solicited. The increased funds will be needed, according to Hammerle, for the ski V, o ancees zz- ZZ-H2 Toyo quallty-craftsd tires for paaaangar cart, trucks, vans and recreational vahiclaa are manufactured In tha most modem tire building lacllltlaa by experienced craftsmen, and are performance proven on roada all over the world. Each atap of research, design engineering, development, production, produc-tion, Inspection and testing test-ing employe the most modem equipment and the latest technology and careful workman-eNp. workman-eNp. Toyo Tire (U.S.A.) Corporation la dedicated to quality products, Integrity and courteous service. 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"We feel we have in J..-I with great vitality and charm who working with the trustees can help us reach our new goals and objectives," objec-tives," he said Before she left NFL Films in 1978, she had worked herself her-self up to vicC-president. She left NFL Films to form a new video program sales division of the Katz Agency, where she stayed until accepting ac-cepting the position with the U.S. Ski Team. Racquet Qub names new pro After six months with nobody in the head pro position, the Park City Racquet Club now has somebody. That somebody comes in the person of Al Johnson, a 31-year-old veteran of the tennis wars here and abroad. Johnson comes to Park City from the Ogden (Utah) Racquet and Swim Club, where he has been the head professional. Prior to that, he has been playing and instructing in-structing tennis throughout the United States and Europe. He has taught at the Harry Hopman Tennis Camp in Amherst, Mass. as well as the Nick Bolletieri-Hopman Adult Tennis Camp. He was also head pro at clubs in Oakmont, Pa., Springfield, Missouri and the Mt. Eryie Club in Ogden. But his experience isn't limited to the United States. Johnson spent time as director direc-tor of tennis at the International Inter-national Tennis and Ski Camps in Caprun, Austria and Cervinia, Italy. While in Europe, he competed professionally. He is also a certified member of the U.S. Pro Tennis Association. Johnson will head all adult programs at the Racquet Club and will assume responsibility over the booming junior program, now under the leadership of Ronn Cooper, when Cooper returns to ski instruction during the winter The six-month delay in replacing Dave Irwin was intentional. in-tentional. The club was looking for someone it felt could fit into the club's atmosphere at-mosphere and would be compatible with Park City and its environment, according accor-ding to Club spokesperson Nan Ball. Johnson's services will be available to club members and nonmembers alike. by Jim Murray Garrison's life no cowboy's lament You'd know him if he were on TV in a cowboy hat lipping snuff. If you were a rodeo buff, you'd know him if he was flopping under the horns of a 700-pound running steer and dragging him to the ground or roping and tying a bawling calf. If you are on Green Bay Packer, you'd know him if Dallas had the ball on the four-yard line because he'd be the one with the ball. He looks like 190 pounds of trouble just sitting sit-ting there. He's coiled. You'd imagine the members of the Dalton Gang looked like this. He looks as if he might have a price on his head somewhere west of the Brazos. Wyatt Earp would get nervous if he rode into town . 1 He was the genuine ; spurs-otftte-'boots,' chaps-on-the-Levis, ! hammered -jopper-4h-i the-belt-buckle article, the Cowboy on the DallasCowboys. He wasn't fast, he wasn't big. He was just dangerous. He hit with the outraged fury of a surprised mountain lion. The Cowboys were "America's Team" and Walt Garrison was as American as a coyote's howl. The team had Calvin Hill, Dwayne Thomas, Robert Newhouse, Bobby Hayes, Golden Richards, and Don Perkins in his years, but Walt Garrison was the guy they gave the ball to when the play had to work or the game was lost. He was raised deep in the heart of Texas, but he had to go to school in Oklahoma, at State, because he was considered to slow for offense and too small for defense in the Lone Star State. The Cowboys waited clear till the fifth round to draft him because he only ran a 4.75 40 and, at Dallas, defensive tackles ran faster than that. Even when he slowed to 5.2 in the 40, he was still the Cowboy's bread-and-butter player. Garrison, like Billy the Kid, was quick on the draw. He shot you first. You had to reach quick or you were dead. Don Meredith, his quarterback, put it in perspective with his tongue in cheek: "If you needed four yards, you'd give the ball to Walt Garrison, and he'd get you four yards. If you needed 20 yards, you'd give the ball to Walt Garrison and he'd get you four yards." The unusual part was, Walt Garrison didn't want to be a football player. He wanted to ride bulls, not buses. When some guys sign with the Cowboys, they want the team to buy them tax-free bonds or oil fields. Garrison wanted a horse trailer. When the team publicist reached him in a phone booth one time and told him he had a number for him to call, he asked "Do you have a pencil?" "No," said Garrison, "But I have a pen knife." When he first played for the Cowboys, the club would have a team meeting the night before a game. Garrison would attend. Then he would get in his pickup truck and ride to a nearby town where they had a rodeo. He would bulldog dagger-horn steers for the evening before he would wrestle the L.A. Rams the next day. Anything without horns held no terror for Walt, and Merlin Olsen only had his painted on. Still, Garrison was not your basic Sports Illustrated-coyer, inspire-a-novel-pro-football 'vstar. TJe cWboys made hirnge) off jjorej tackand feiills' horns during, 'the season', buVdurtog'toie off-keas6ri, WJiirgot: out' his"" snuff box and lasso and went chasing steers and calfs again. He starred in a film showing unusual off-season occupations of football players, and, in the course of the filming of it, the narrator became fascinated with his snuff -dipping. The announcer had never seen anyone do it, outside of costume movies by guys wearing wigs andor dancing the minuet. Garrison extolled the virtues of smokeless tobacco and the U.S. Tobacco Company saw the footage and signed "that Cowboy" to a contract on the spot. Garrison was able to quit pro-football on the spot. He was able to quit everything when he married the daughter (Pam) of one of Texas' richest men, B.F. Phillips. Walt was in L.A. this week for the running of the "Skoal Dash For Cash," the richest horserace in California history, at Los Alamitos. The brainchild of Garrison's father-in-law, the U.S. Tobacco Company put up the seed money ($50,000) but it was the quarter-horsemen themselves who put the purse up over a million dollars with their supplemental entry fees. ,,. So Walt Garrison's life is no Cowboy's lament. He got the hat, the horse, the girl, the gold watch and everything. Also, the Home on the Range. Nor was it The Kid's Last Ride for the last Cowboy to play for the Cowboys. He still goes out lassoing dogies on the college circuit and is a certified card-carrying Cowboy, No. 32 in the Rodeo Cowboys Association. Only, now, he doesn't have to get Tom Landry's permission. He also gets to spread the joys of smokeless pipe tobacco. 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