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...suspected, to the fact that most non-smokers do not inhale when they try a cigarette. So he divided the steady smokers into inhalers and non-inhalers, and tested them again. The non-inhalers showed no significant increase in finger tremor. But the fingers of the inhalers trembled like aspen leaves: 82% more than before they began the cigarette. Cigar and pipe inhalers reacted the same way too. Moral: if you like to smoke but not to tremble, don't inhale...
...down, picked the last three cars off their narrow-gauge track and carried them over the lip of the precipice. One car went down 30 feet, the other two some 400 (see cut). But all 14 occupants miraculously came out alive. Another snow avalanche, in Difficult Creek Canyon, near Aspen, Colo., killed Skier Alexander McFadden, socialite Memphis cotton manufacturer...
...Aspen, Alta, and Sun Valley dominate western slope sliding with their fast, dry snow, bare mountain-sides, and long runs, Sun Valley even goes so far as to offer outdoor swimming all year around, and both Aspen and Alta are also blessed with mild weather...
Although their main attraction, instructor Fred Iseland, has gone to the Aspen ski area in Colorado, Snow Valley with its long season due to north-facing slopes provides fair to good skiing for large weekend crowds...
...took nine years of study and travel to enable Dyer-Bennett, born a cousin of thirteenth British baronet Swinnerton Dyer, to develop his skill in the long-lost art of minstrelsy. Last summer he established the Dyer-Bennett School of Minstrelsy in Aspen, Colorado...