Word: chalet
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...Skimobile's 180 miniature red & blue cable cars, skiers ride up the 2,052-foot mountain. Then Gibson developed 50 miles of downhill trails, hired famed skimeister Hannes Schneider (after he got him out of a Nazi concentration camp), built four new cottages and a "Swiss chalet" annex, converted an old inn into the Eastern Slope hotel. He lost $50,000 on the hotel for three years, until he hired Hotelman Lester Sprague to pull...
...Police General Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Heinrich Himmler's specialist in mass execution-by-gas, was found hiding in a fortified chalet in the Tyrol with his adjutant, Artur Scheidler...
...Count as Countess Edda Mussolini Ciano, widow of the Fascist foreign minister whom her father had had shot. With her was her latest lover, dandified Marchese Pucci, who had helped whisk her across the Swiss frontier when Mussolini fell. This strange pair descended periodically from their snug mountain chalet to dance, dine and wine...
Insurance Salesman MacMurray first visits Miss Stanwyck's dreary suburban Los Angeles chalet to sell her husband a policy, not to murder him. But leggy Miss Stanwyck is already dreaming of homicide and a gay widowhood financed by her husband's insurance money. In a trice infatuated Salesman MacMurray lends a hand. He tricks her husband into signing up for an accident policy which guarantees his widow double indemnity. Together they murder him and make the murder look like a fall from a moving train. After the crime comes retribution in the form of Edward G. Robinson...
...Springfield enthusiasts who wanted a terrain at their doorstep opened an illuminated two trail run with a tow January 28, south of the General Edwards Bridge on the Island Pond Road. This city also offers skiing at the Franconia Golf Course and skating to music at the Forest Park Chalet...