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Outside the U.S., however, various kinds of synthetic ski surfaces have been more successful. A 400-meter nylon-covered ramp at Edinburgh's Hillend Ski Center is jammed with people during the winter months; so are the chloride-vinyl ski jumps and slalom courses of Tokyo's Yomuiriland. But it is in Brazil, where a tropical climate leaves no alternative, that plastic skiing has demonstrated its greatest appeal. In the past four years, 300,000 persons have driven the long dirt road that winds past lush palm, orange and banana trees to get to the President Medici...
...Queen, perhaps the most significant event was one with purely personal implications. After a triumphal tour through the south of France, Elizabeth and her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, paid a call on the Duke and Duchess of Windsor at their house in the Bois de Boulogne. It was the first time that Elizabeth, 46, had visited their home since her uncle abdicated in 1936. It may well be the last: the former King Edward VIII, now 77, is gravely...
...chief of Tanganyika's relatively minor Zanaki tribe, was raised in a cluster of mud huts and sent off to a government school at twelve. He became a teacher of biology and history, and studied for three years at the University of Edinburgh. Back in Tanganyika, he was increasingly drawn into the campaign for independence. Characteristically, however, as he traveled the vast colony by Land Rover to proselytize for TANU (Tanganyika Africa Nationalist Union), he had a gentleman's agreement with the police who tailed him everywhere: they stopped to help fix each other's flat tires...
...could afford to spend $500-$600 to dig in dirt and rubbish for a summer. The widened scope attracted increased British and European attention, and it became customary for up to 20 nationalities to be represented each season. In recognition of its success, one of the Duke of Edinburgh's awards for International Cooperation was presented to the excavation...
...next president, the Australian Conservation Foundation proudly announced, would be none other than Britain's Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. Labor Party Senator James Keeffe promptly resigned his membership with a blast: "The finances of the organization cannot be stretched to cover traveling expenses for a national president who has his headquarters 10,000 miles away." Right on, editorialized The Australian, citing the appointment as a step "back into the mould of the great Australian cultural fringe. Is it still necessary that, for a venture to be respectable, it must have an outsider at the head of it?" Prince...