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...kinds of snow abound in Colorado: powder for the slopes and powder for the nose. According to a state survey, a quarter of the people at ski resorts like Aspen ("Toot City") have got their Rocky Mountain highs from cocaine. So it is appropriate that Colorado also boasts the country's only clinic of its type exclusively for coke abusers. Operated by the University of Colorado School of Medicine in Denver, it has been extraordinarily successful in helping people kick the habit. Its principal method? Self-blackmail. The abuser, who comes to the clinic voluntarily and usually in desperation...
...conservative Aspen businessman, blamed his cocaine habit on the morphine he was given during hospitalization for an accident. Eventually, he was doing a couple of grams a day and suffering from paranoia, roller-coaster mood swings and an inability to work. "I lived my whole life for cocaine," he recalls. Tom, too, went to the clinic and made a pact. A diehard Republican, he could think of no penance worse than forking over $1,000 to Democratic Senator Edward Kennedy. A year ago he agreed that a check should be mailed if he resumed his habit. Ted Kennedy will have...
...sport's unhurried solitude. At big downhill resorts there are often agonizing waits for ski lifts, and eateries are jammed. Mobs of hot-doggers and snow bunnies have turned Stowe and Vail into adrenalized assembly lines of sport. At the Home Ranch the pace slows. Its 580 aspen-studded acres offer cross-country skiers 20 miles of trails glistening in 2 ft. of new powder. Twenty guests-the inn's capacity-enjoy wine-and-cheese parties in the meadows, photograph elk, ermine and eagles, soak in private hot tubs and feed resident tame llamas. No sounds of sports...
...usual touring model and metal-edged for downhill curve cutting, is doing a brisk business in sports shops. Telemarking classes have become standard fare at the larger touring centers. There are even the first North American Telemark Championships in the offing. They will be held this March in Aspen. Says Suzanne Hogan, 32, a self-described ski bum and waitress at the Home Ranch: "Telemarking has all the excitement of white water and hang gliding. You're in the snow and part...
...lively, impulsive man, Giugiaro is always armed with bundles of pens, pencils and colored chalk in every pocket. Rather than talk, he often sketches his part of a conversation. At Aspen, Colo., last June before an audience of 1,600 fellow designers, he chose not to read a paper on automobile design, but to draw his lecture. With the aid of special pens, he made sketches on an illuminated board, which were projected on a large screen...