Word: chalet
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Lady Sarah Spencer, willowy, red-haired and 23, spent a skiing holiday with Charles and other friends last winter at a Swiss chalet. She, however, insists they are only chums. In an interview with Woman's Own magazine she gave a rare close-up view of the bachelor Prince. Charles, she disclosed, makes his own dates (not, as some have said, through third parties). He may pick up the woman in his Aston Martin or invite her to meet him at one of the royal residences...
...Brien talked in a recent Real Paper feature of the dreaming he did in Vietnam to keep his mind off the war. His personal daydream was to leave the war and live in a chalet in the Austrian mountains, and read. But, he said of the dilemma that caught him between fighting in a war that was morally wrong and the obligation he felt to his country and to his middle-western, middle-class parents: "My single philosophical tenet is that you can't outrun your sense of obligation--even in imagination. It's always there...
...society; this orients them toweard the working-class point of view. It's true that most lecturers aren't paid well, if at all. But there are notable exceptions, mainly those people who are regulars on the lecture circuit-- people like Ralph Nader. Galbraith, comfortably enconsced in his Gstaad chalet, doesn't fit; this mold either...
David, Jane and Nicholas now divide their time between the Cornwall residence, a rambling house in Hampstead and a ski chalet in the Swiss Alps. His sons by the previous marriage, Simon, 20, Stephen, 17, and Timothy, 14, are frequent visitors, irrevocably tied to the man who confesses himself "a soppy father." The close relationships are an open repudiation of his own deprived childhood?and of the father who died in 1975 without a reconciliation...
...first requests was that Linowitz phone the news to Jerry Ford up in Vail. At least three times Carter personally talked to Ford on the phone, then sent Linowitz, General George Brown, and former Ford Aide Brent Scowcroft on a 6½-hour journey to Ford's chalet in the Rockies. Jerry has now joined enthusiastically in the battle for the treaty...