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...next day, Thursday, the " President, Rosalynn, Vice President Walter Mondale, Chief Aide Hamiloton Jordan, Press Secretary Jody Powell, Image Builder Gerald Rafshoon. Domestic Affairs Adviser Stuart Eizenstat and Pollster Patrick Caddell gathered around a table in the President's Aspen Lodge and drew up lists of people to invite to the summit. The lists were broken into broad headings?one was "religious and ethical leaders," later inevitably nicknamed "the God squad"?and organized day by day. Aides began phoning invitations Friday morning, and the first group, a hastily assembled collection of eight Governors, arrived for dinner that night. Eventually...
...Carter's political advisers realized that he had to patch together some kind of program quickly. The official line on the Camp David discussions was that they were being held in a relaxed atmosphere, sometimes on the deck around the swimming pool adjoining Aspen Lodge. The President went jogging Saturday morning with some of the Governors he had invited to the retreat and his guests later reported that he was in a buoyant mood. In Washington, however, some Government officials were calling the domestic summit a watershed in the Carter presidency, a last chance to reverse the widespread impression...
...that he had also been close to the scene of several recent murders in Colorado. After strands of hair from his car were identified as coming from Caryn Campbell, 24, a Michigan nurse who was murdered while on a ski vacation in Colorado in 1975, Bundy was extradited to Aspen for trial early in 1977. Late that year, he escaped by losing 35 Ibs. and wriggling through a lighting panel in his maximum-security cell...
Where is real estate climbing fastest in the U.S.? Try Aspen and neighboring Snowmass, Colo., the ski-and-sun resort area whose population of 17,000 swells to 35,000 when the snow is on the trails from Thanksgiving through mid-April. Six years ago, studio apartments in the Lichenhearth condominium complex sold for $30,000; today, these 675-sq.-ft. jewel boxes go for $175,000. Last year Jay Kuhne, a California real estate man, parted with $275,000 for his three-bedroom town house condo on the Aspen Club grounds; this year the unit is selling...
Some of the demand comes from Europeans, who find the Rockies cheaper than the Alps, but condo buyers are mainly affluent U.S. skiers. A big reason for Aspen's inflation is its restrictive zoning and new growth-management plan, which encourage low-income housing and limit the pace of luxury construction. Says Hans Cantrup, a developer: "The building quota has already been used up for the next three years." Canny Cantrup has growth-management approval for his plans to put up 30 town houses. Price: $1 million each...