Word: aspen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Aspen, Colo. last week a group of hardheaded U.S. executives stayed up until the small hours of the morning arguing vigorously about the nature of angels. By day they pored over the works of Aristotle, Thoreau, John Stuart Mill and Karl Marx. Inside a hexagonal building, in the midst of an alfalfa field 7,900 ft. above sea level, they met twice daily to discuss such topics as the nature of happiness, the relative merits of justice and charity, the contrasts between democracy and aristocracy...
...sense of balance and feel for the snow, he won a gold medal in all three Alpine events (giant slalom, slalom and downhill). He is expected to win this season's big downhill honors in Europe and plans to come to the U.S. this month to race at Aspen, Colo, and Stowe...
...magazine also were frustrated when they discovered that both magazines had suspended in the middle of serialized novels. At the end of the second installment of Collier's "Doom Cliff" by Luke Short, the hero had been left "drowning in an ocean of pain." But in Aspen, Colo., Author Short (real name: Fred Glidden) told telephoners what they might have guessed anyway: the hero recovers, kills off the bad guys and confides to the pretty hired girl that he will hang up his guns for good...
Eleven years ago Walter Paul Paepcke, millionaire president of Container Corp. of America, motored into the broad valley of Roaring Fork River in Colorado and determined to resurrect the sagging silver-mining town of Aspen. Paepcke built Aspen into a center of muscle and mind, with one of the world's longest ski lifts (14,000 ft.) and summer conferences featuring greats of philosophy, education and musiC−Albert Schweitzer, Reinhold Niebuhr, Jacques Barzun, Mortimer Adler, Igor Stravinsky, et al. This week, with the tax evaluation of Aspen increased sixteenfold, Paepcke, 60, prepared to open a new nonprofit enterprise...
...Aspen's Paepcke hopes that management will take careful note of insurance-company statistics indicting businessmen for poor health, and will underwrite stays for executives at his health center as a tax-deductible business expense. He thinks that he has developed a revitalizing program for "the whole...