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...chair, T-bar, 2 Pomalifts 1,750 21 Glen Ellen Waltsfield 4 T-bar, Pomalift 2,645 22 Haystack Wilmington 2 chairs, 3 T-bars 1,400 23 Hogback Marlboro 4 T-bars 500 24 Jay Jay Peak Tramway, 2 chairs, 3 T-bars 2,090 25 Killington Sherburne Gondola, 8 chairs, 2 Pomslifts 3,050 26 Mad River Glen Waltsfield 4 chairs 1,985 27 Magic Mountain Londonderry 3 chairs, T-bar 1,150 28 Maple Valley West Dummerston 2 chairs, T-bar 850 29 Middlebury Snow Bowl Middlebury Chair, 3 Pomalifts 1,100 30 Mount Ascutney Brownsville...
...aerostat has proved to have extraordinary stability; Hurricane Gilda's 100-m.p.h. winds last year barely nudged it. The helium inside the balloon's tough, eight-layer plastic skin provides enough lift to allow up to 4,000 lbs. of electronic gear to be packed into the gondola hanging from its underside. The equipment can receive and rebroadcast as many as four television channels, two commercial radio stations and the data from 5,000 to 10,000 microwave circuits. At present, the aerostat must be hauled down once a week to refuel the Wankel-powered electric generator...
This exemplar of high style began, unpromisingly enough, as an illiterate mason's apprentice from Padua, where he was born in 1508; he was named Andrea di Pietro della Gondola. At 34, he was still listed on the guild rolls as a "stonecutter." But by then the decisive moment in his career had come; in the late 1530s, while he was working on the construction of Villa Cricoli near Vicenza, its owner took him under his wing. Giangiorgio Trissino, a wealthy humanist with a special interest in architecture, renamed his protégé Palladio, after an Angel...
...buildings may be terrace apartments, set in a step-back arrangement so that the roof of one apartment forms the terrace of the one above. To get residents to work or to shops, a subway line will run under the town, with another transit system (moving sidewalks or gondola cars) connecting the second floor of all the buildings...
...officials likewise refuse to speculate on the Council's decision. The community groups, however, are universally pessimistic. "I don't know how much we can expect to get out of them [the City Council]. I'd say we have at least seven votes against us," Hard Times's Gondola said. "All we managed to do was to delay the demolition and put the plan off a few months...