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...good deal of interest this year has been focused on Sugarbush, a new development just this side of Mad River Glen in Vermont. Opening in December, it has had a very successful year so far. Sugarbush boasts a magnificent view from the summit, as well as spacious gondola cars...
Wildcat's gondola (two pasenger) cars hit the headlines last year for providing skiers with a thrilling and unplanned descent. The safety mechanism didn't perform as well as it might have, and passengers, locked in their gondolas, were given a surprise coast backwards down the cable at apparently terrifying speeds. No one was injured, and all were generously refunded their money...
...hole into the weakened river bank, finally ate through a ceiling of the Pennsylvania Coal Co.'s big River Slope Mine. Without warning, 45 anthracite miners were washed waist-high by tomb-cold rising water. While emergency crews dumped telephone poles, bales of hay and even empty railroad gondola cars into the hole to block the water, 33 miners threaded through abandoned tunnels and shafts to safety. The other twelve were presumed drowned...
...fantasy in which the College of Cardinals chooses as Pope an expelled English novice (like himself) who reforms the church and the world, and dies a martyr. In The Desire and Pursuit of the Whole, Rolfe told the truth, little less fantastic, about his years as a sort of gondola bum in Venice. Nicholas Crabbe concerns Rolfe as a pitiful but unpitying literary hack in turn-of-the-century London -badgered, betrayed and swindled by a gallery of grotesque clowns called publishers and editors. The spite of this novel is now 50 years old, but time has been no deodorant...
...Gondola Greeting. In 1953 came news that the Pope had made Archbishop Roncalli a cardinal. The heads of Catholic states have the privilege of awarding the red biretta to nuncios created cardinals while abroad, and Cardinal Roncalli received his biretta from his friend Socialist French President Vincent Auriol. thus underlining the good relations between church and state. Three days later the Pope appointed Roncalli Patriarch of Venice...