Free Preview: Playmate of the Month March 1983 - Alana Soares

How many people can stay up all night studying for a midterm in political science, take a quick shower and then show up for an interview in complete control - charming, sparkling, witty? And still look as good as Alana Soares? None that we can remember. We asked how she did on the test. "Well, it was one of those where you did either very well or not so well. I think I did OK. I am fascinated by American government, politics, how things work. When I like something, I usually do very well." <br> Alana is a freshman at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. She has signed up as a political science major, in part because of a trip to Mazatlán last spring. "It bothers me how people take for granted our way of life. When you see how differently the rest of the world lives, you want to find out more about your own system." <br> Alana is a one-woman United Nations. "My father is Hawaiian-Japanese, a three-time United States surfboard champion. My mother is Spanish-Irish. When they divorced, she took my younger sister and me and moved to Park City. My mother works in a ski shop." Alana tends to favor her mother: "I've tried surfing. I can't do it. In skiing, you lean away from the mountain. In surfing you lean into the wave. It seemed wrong." Although we've never heard of a famous Spanish, Irish, Hawaiian or Japanese skier, Alana and her sister, Leilani, took to skis in a ferocious sibling rivalry. They were sponsored by the local K2 representative and for seven years went to...