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...were already dead." ··· The crowds at Courchevel, in the French Alps, were tickled rosé by the tireless enthusiasm of Skier Pierre Elliott Trudeau. Apparently undistracted by the resort's après-ski attractions, Canada's Prime Minister swooped 20 miles down a glacier run through virgin snow, braved subfreezing temperatures, high winds and unavoidable falls in heavy crust. Instructors gave his style a B to B+, "très joli," his spirit straight A's. "I thought of coming last year," said the sportsman, "but the general was still here." Not General...
Capitol by a Glacier. Besides the windfall from the leases, Alaska will collect a 12½% royalty and a 4% "severance tax" on every barrel of oil taken out. Inventing ways to spend the wealth, in fact, has become a favored pastime. Alaskans have variously suggested building a bridge to Siberia, distributing the cash equally among the citizenry, and building a much-discussed new state capitol beside the Mendenhall Glacier near Juneau. More soberly, the Legislative Council has commissioned The Brookings Institution to recommend how best to invest the interest that the money will earn, and Governor Miller has asked...
...Roma, and even a night of Indian music with Sitarist Debabrata Chaudhury and Tabla Virtuoso Sitaram. The highlight of the festival will take place on Sept. 17, when the Orchestre de la Radio Suisse Italienne will present a concert of Mozart and Haydn atop 10,000-ft.-high Diablerets Glacier...
...post down. Giscard was an obvious alternative, if a controversial one to loyal Gaullists, who dubbed him "Giscariot" after he opposed De Gaulle in the April referendum. Brilliant, rich and openly ambitious, Giscard affects an image à la Kennedy, has had himself photographed skiing France's Grande-Motte glacier and hunting wild boar in the Soviet Union. During his four years as De Gaulle's Finance Minister, he imposed drastic deflationary curbs, which were partly blamed for last year's unrest, but gave De Gaulle the foreign exchange wherewithal to attack sterling and the dollar. Ungraciously sacked...
...straightaway. The course, however, spiraled up and around the rugged peaks of the Alaska Range at elevations of 3,300 ft. or more. Bone-chilling winds gusted to 70 m.p.h., and the snowmobilers became more concerned with survival than speed. Worse yet, the winds screaming down from the Matanuska Glacier swept the snow cover off long stretches of the road ways, and the gravelly pavement destroyed many of the steel skis. Repairs were all but impossible in the sub-zero weather, since the flesh of the snowmobilers' hands tended to freeze to the metal of their machines. Several snow...