Word: aspenization
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...that have been sprouting on the hills each year. In the West, they were trying out the ski tows and warming huts at such new places as Big Mountain in Montana and Alpine Meadows in California. But the major mecca for college-agers at Christmastime is the town of Aspen, developed by the late industrialist Walter Paepcke high in the Rocky Mountains, 105 miles southwest of Denver...
Massachusetts' Democratic Senator Teddy Kennedy moved from a swimming holiday in the Virgin Islands to a skiing junket with Bobby (and families) at Aspen, Colo. But his office in Washington was already grinding out news releases as fast as anyone could say, "He Can Do MORE for Massachusetts." So far, Teddy's office had announced $135 million in new federal contracts, grants and loans for Massachusetts-with promises of more, more, more...
...state of vivid, sometimes startling, contrasts. Thousands of miles of its flatlands are rich with the emerald green of winter-wheat shoots; other thousands of miles are pasture, dotted with grazing cattle. But the western half of the state is ruggedly mountainous, the steep slopes necked with aspen and capped with snow. Colorado is a land of mining ghost towns and booming oil, gas, missile and atom-research centers. Men in cow boy boots and ten-gallon hats still swing off the cattle trains; but now other men, in Brooks Brothers suits, stride purposefully down the ramps of jet airliners...
...tiny Marble, Colo., (pop. 5) stepped 44 boys from slums and suburbs in 15 states. There they stood awed and silent. All around were 14,000-ft. mountains covered with snow, aspen, blue spruce and Douglas fir; in the craggy heights roamed elk, bear and mountain sheep. The boys could tell it was no place for softies as they started trudging up the steep, three-mile road to a campsite high above the Crystal River Valley. Under the deep blue sky waited tents, blazing alpine meadows and leathery-faced instructors. "I hope you will enjoy your stay here," declared...
...Quincy-Holmes Arts Festival opens this evening with a panel discussion on the case for public support of the arts in the Quincy Dining Hall at 8:30 p.m. Conductor Leopold Stokowski is a member of the panel, which also includes Norman Singer, director of the Aspen (Colorado) Music Festival, and author Dean Brelis...