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What better way to enjoy such conditions than by having a mountain in the middle of town? Aspen Mountain, a.k.a. Ajax, certainly has its share of devotees. During skiing hours, its gondola lift moves slowly but constantly up the steep mountain, taking hundreds of vacationers to the top while blocking off wind...
Beginners may want to avoid Ajax--or at least to proceed with caution. If you feel you just have to say you've skied this behemoth, here's a tip: make a big show of getting on the gondola in the morning, spend the day in Little Nell's drinking hot chocolate, and then quietly ride the gondola down...
However, if you are claustrophobic and abhor being pressed together like sardines, three seat chair-lifts leave from every gondola station. In the last years however, despite being 1850 meters high in altitude, snow has been sparse at Christmas time, and the normally highly enjoyable "off-piste" skiing was disappointing. The best time to go is in February and March when snow is abundant. "Apres-ski" life ranges from English pubs to French nightclubs. Val d'Isere attracts mostly British and French skiers. If you like to ski, and want to find out how good you really...
...float in a hot-air balloon. One lashes a strong rubber cord to the midsection of the other, Fred Kaemerer, 23, a Denver engineer, who grimaces like a condemned man. When the countdown rings out -- "Three! Two! One!" -- Kaemerer swan-dives headfirst over the edge of the gondola. Although it lasts only seconds, the 60 m.p.h. plunge seems to take forever. But the real kick is yet to come. Just as Kaemerer hurtles to within a few feet of the earth and a terrifying impact, the cord stretches taut, recoiling him skyward like a rocket...
...circle. Among the 37 arrested were three of the general's closest and most trusted associates: Colonel Guillermo Wong, head of military intelligence, Colonel Julio Ow Young, who oversees personnel for the dreaded Doberman militias that have repeatedly been turned on opposition rallies, and Lieut. Colonel Armando Palacios Gondola, head of an organization that supervised joint military operations with U.S. troops...