Word: colorado
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...Once the American public finds out that there is also a Nordic combined event and that it involves a 70-meter leap one day along with a 15-km mush the next, who will believe that just about the best in the world at the moment is someone from Colorado named Kerry Lynch? Vermonter Jeff Hastings, one of those ski-jumping birdmen only casually acquainted with gravity, won a World Cup event in December at Lake Placid. Not only are hopes high, but the cause for hope is real and a bit exhilarating (see following stories...
...unexpurgated first draft of the report, however, promptly leaked. It praised some members of Congress for placing the national interest above their home-district concerns (Democratic Representatives Les Aspin of Wisconsin and Patricia Schroeder of Colorado and Republican Congressman Silvio Conte of Massachusetts). It also noted candidly that some of the best-known legislators had dipped into pork-barrel politics. Among them: Democratic Presidential Candidate Ernest Hollings and Republican Senator Strom Thurmond, both of South Carolina (for fighting to keep Fort Jackson, near Columbia, open); Republican Senator Robert Dole of Kansas (for preventing the closing of a Housing and Urban...
...those parents who still dream of down hill glory, resorts like Utah's Snowbird hold racing camps where they can polish slalom techniques while the youngsters run gates in separate classes. On the other hand, Charles Maas, director of marketing at Vail and Beaver Creek in Colorado, says that 15% of the people who come to Vail do not ski: "They want to shop or go ice skating." To amuse family members whose interest in alpine skiing is less than fanatic, resort managers are building elaborate tennis and racquetball courts, heated pools, co-ed Jacuzzis, ice rinks...
Similar plans are working at Steamboat in Colorado and at Vermont's Woodstock Inn and Resort...
...second come-on might be called "Kids Disappear!" At Waterville, Vermont's Bolton Valley, Boyne Mountain and Boyne Highlands in Michigan, and Colorado's Beaver Creek and Copper Mountain, the staff will take youngsters off their parents' hands early in the morning, and some of the resorts will keep them until after the adults have enjoyed a leisurely drinks-and-dinner. Nurseries are nothing new, but they are now much more elaborate. At Copper Mountain, infants from two months to two years are cared for by a pediatric nurse. Older chil dren then move...