Word: chalet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...popularity may be measured in part by the declining number of hotel rooms; like a horde of men who came to dinner, winter vacationers tend to linger on forever, end up plunking down an average $70,000 for a plot of land and another $50,000 for a chalet to build on it. To some, a year-round retreat there is worth even more: Actress Elizabeth Taylor picked up a little shack in the valley last summer for a cool...
Visitors who choose to rent instead of build or buy can get away for less ($3,000 for the season), but find themselves dissatisfied. Said one American matron last week, "I just rented a chalet for the season this time, but next year I'm going to take it all year. It's such trouble having to store my ski clothes." In addition to the fulltime chalet dwellers (most of whom maintain at least one other home base, ranging in location and social prestige from the Riviera to Florida), Gstaad harbors a large class of doting parents...
Such an awful lot of celebrities live around the tony shores of Lake Geneva in Switzerland, and one young German photographer set out to snap them all. Among the least camera-shy in the chalet colony was Old Litterateur Noel Coward, 62, who obligingly posed for a seraphic portrait before a pair of huge gilt wings that perch above his fireplace. Coward was highly pleased with the result. "It is a pleasant thought," said he, "to know that I have a top-class photographer so much at hand...
Pocket Aqueducts. Last year she and Ponti acquired a chalet in Bürgenstock overlooking Lake Lucerne, partly to establish themselves as residents of Switzerland in order to sidestep Italy's haphazard tax code. They keep an immense apartment in Rome. They have also bought and are refashioning a 16th century villa eleven miles southeast of the city. It is on 18 acres and has 50 rooms. Before they are through, it will cost them $2,000,000. The place sits on catacombs that will become the world's weirdest wine cellar. Sophia and Carlo will each have...
...able to resist pressure from their own anti-French extremists only if the negotiations were hermetically sealed off from newsmen. As a meeting place Joxe chose Les Rousses, a crowded but unfashionable French ski resort near the Swiss border. There the French team took over the government-owned Chalet du Yeti (the Cottage of the Abominable Snowman). The Algerians, quartered across the border at a lakeside resort, used different cars and routes each day to attend the sessions, driving straight into a garage that connected with the conference room. All the delegates disguised themselves as skiers in stretch pants...