November 28, 1983

COPPER MOUNTAIN, Colo. - "You don't have to motivate them," Kelly said, with a smile, recalling the episode during a recent training camp at this resort high in the Rockies. "They've got the experience, and they're gonna go that extra mile to make it." The World Cup skiing circuit will begin this week with men's and women's slalom events at Kranjskagora, Yugoslavia. In a season that will also include the Winter Olympics at Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, in February, American hopes have never been higher. For the first time, the United States will have two defending World Cup champions in the Alpine events (Phil Mahre and Tamara McKinney), along with such established international-class skiers as Steve Mahre, Christin Cooper and Cindy Nelson. The outlook in the Nordic events, led by Bill Koch, is equally upbeat. "We're going to approach it like any other World Cup season," said Bill Marolt, the director of the Alpine program, before departing for Europe. "Because of the stature of the Olympics, there is extra stature and emotion, and there is a higher level of intensity and preparation. But we know what our capabilities are, and we know if there's a hunt, we'll be in the hunt." The United States has never won an Olympic gold medal in men's Alpine skiing, one of the glamour events of the Winter Olympics. This is another reason why Phil Mahre, with three consecutive World Cup titles, and his brother Steve will be followed more closely than ever this season.

The official decision earlier this month by the McDonnell Douglas Corporation not to produce an all-new 150-passenger airliner leaves the field to the Boeing Company and Airbus Industrie, the European consortium, but it has also stepped up the debate over whether the plane is needed at all. Airbus, backed principally by the German, French and British Governments, is expected to announce by early next year whether it will produce its entrant, the A320 twin-engine airliner that is aimed at replacing older Boeing 727's, McDonnell Douglas DC-9's and other smaller narrow-body planes. For its part, Boeing is waiting to see how the market develops for an all-new plane before committing itself to any particular design. Replacing Aging Fleets Virtually all industry officials agree that the airlines will soon have to begin buying some kind of plane to replace many of their aging narrow- body jets, which account for almost 80 percent of the 6,100 commercial planes in the air today.

''Shared interests, common goals and similar suffering have drawn us even closer together.

This economic recovery, like many before it, is slowing from the vigorous growth it showed at its start, economists say with pleasure. For the time being, at least, they are looking for a more modest, but solid, upturn. ''The outlook is for the best of all possible worlds in the fourth quarter and through next year - low inflation and a sustainable recovery,'' said Edward Yardeni, chief economist at Prudential-Bache Securities. ''I didn't think that was possible a year ago.''

A program designed to speed emergency medical services in Manhattan's tall office buildings is to begin early next year. It will be run by New York City's Emergency Medical Service and an organization representing 150 of the city's largest corporations and real-estate interests. The immediate objective, city officials said, is to organize volunteer medical teams in office buildings, especially for the upper floors, to provide first aid until an emergency ambulance crew arrives. Faster Response Time Sought Another goal is to cut the response time of the ambulance crews. The average response time for high-priority calls on the 911 emergency telephone system is now 11 minutes.