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Last year, on her 49th birthday, Shirley MacLaine wanted to be alone with her dreams. She trekked up into the Rockies near Cripple Creek, Colo., and wished-or "projected," as she puts it-that during the next year, the film she was making, Terms of Endearment, would win an Oscar, and so would she; that her book on spiritualism, Out on a Limb, would become a bestseller; that a revamped version of her nightclub act would score a hit on Broadway. Anything can look possible to a woman who once danced an entire ballet on a broken ankle. But that...
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...those programs were too bewildering, there were exhibitors at Soft-con promising to help customers separate the software wheat from the fast-growing pile of programmed chaff. ITM, of Walnut Creek, Calif, demonstrated a new computerized method for obtaining instant critical reviews of 4,000 products. Stewart Brand, publisher of the Whole Earth Catalogs, announced the first issue of the Whole Earth Software Review, a quarterly magazine that will pick and pan products. Another publisher, Software Digest, unveiled a $14.95 Ratings Book, which compares 30 word-processing programs written for the IBM Personal Computer. Says Spokesman Harold Poliskin: "We want...
...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...
...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...