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This past Christmas Jim Bredar and I drove that route to Winter Park Ski Area in his old Toyota Jeep, as he had done hundreds of times before. The sky was overcast and it was freezing inside the jeep because the heater was busted and the windows didn't close all the way. We got to Winter Park around 8:30 a.m.--early, before the lifts started, because Jim was a senior ski patrolman and had to get instructions from the patrol leader before the mountain opened--and I was so numb I wondered if I could...
...rigorous schedule; it began with an early morning TV show and ended with a seven-hour photo session for a cigarette advertisement. Says Skow: "First there was an hour and a half of makeup, then four costume changes, then hours of posing under a wind machine and a heater." Three days later, Tiegs posed for six hours -this time for TIME'S cover. Hiro, one of America's top fashion photographers, assembled what he calls "a professional task force" in preparation. Says Hiro: "For this cover, I treated Cheryl not as a model but as a personality...
More than just a gleam in an advertising man's eye, hot tubs actually exist and are widely used in such areas as Santa Barbara, California. The tub itself is basically a California wine vat adapted for bathing purposes by the addition of pump, filter, heater, water-jets, and lots of water. While some claim that the modern hot tub originated in the '50s among rural dropouts in the Santa Barbara Hills, tubs did not attract much notice in California until four or five years...
...start on a cold morning. Since the whole principle of diesel ignition is to raise the temperature of the fuel mixture by compressing it into a superdense mass in the cylinder, a cold engine block can keep the motor from starting at all. The Olds diesel has a block heater and a "prechamber," where the mixture is briefly heated by a glow plug. The driver turns on the ignition, then waits for an instrument-panel light to shine, telling him that he can step on the accelerator to start the engine. At 0° F., that can take a full...
...rose glow in my heater...