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...pros call him "Tiger," and every day for a week he went up the mountain after lunch to shoot "the Slot," one of the toughest runs at Snow-mass-at-Aspen. "Simply magnificent," gloated retired Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, 51, a ski nut who has been using the Aspen ski slopes to unwind after seven crushing years in Washington. In his new job as president of the World Bank, the Tiger will be able to spend about half the year at his chalet in Snowmass, but last week's outing may prove unsurpassable. "This has been a beautiful...
...weekend and at similar savings, Denver's Ports of Call ferried 68 members to Nassau; Cincinnati's Travel A-Go-Go and Manhattan's Society of Sky Roamers delivered 90 members each to Miami for the Super Bowl; World Samplers of Dallas lifted 51 skiers to Aspen, Colo.; and Indianapolis' Voyager 1,000 took 70 members to Freeport, Grand Bahamas. Club planes, like all private aircraft, presently undergo an annual Federal Aviation Agency inspection, but the F.A.A. now intends to start treating them as if they were commercial airliners, requiring continuous, system-by-system inspection...
...activity is most frantic at Colorado's $13 million Snowmass-at-Aspen, far and away the biggest new winter resort to be developed since Alec Gushing (TIME cover, Feb. 9, 1959) built up Squaw Valley for the 1960 Olympics. At Snowmass, Bill Janss, 49, a millionaire Los Angeles land developer and onetime U.S. Olympic Team skier, has carved out 2,000 acres of slopes with 50 miles of trails and five double-chair lifts on Mount Baldy (13,-162 ft.), which have already matched the ski area of the three nearby mountains served by the town of Aspen proper...
Several Harvard team members are going to downhill training camps out west over Christmas vacation. The Rocky Mountain Ski Association has invited two freshmen--Steven Bainbridge and John Orear--to a camp at Aspen. Sophomore Michael Cook will be at a Sun Valley camp sponsored by the Pacific Northwest Ski Association...
...school fail" is not the lament of an outside reformer concerned about the obvious failure of the nation's ghetto schools. It is based on Holt's minute note taking and sharp observation in 14 years of teaching above-average students in such selective sanctuaries as Aspen's Colorado Rocky Mountain School, Cambridge's Shady Hill and Boston's Commonwealth. The son of an affluent Manhattan insurance broker, Holt's own education included Switzerland's elite Le Rosey, Phillips Exeter and Yale ('44). Once fascinated by physics as "a way of getting...