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Confusing Labyrinth. La Plagne, built in 1961, is almost exclusively a family resort. As such, it is a trifle staid by skiers' standards. Located near the older resort of Courcherel, the resort has 23 well-maintained runs serviced by 17 lifts, but the runs are strictly for beginners or less adventuresome intermediates. Like Flaine, La Plagne is designed as a forum in which a sometimes confusing labyrinth of over-and-underground tunnels connect the various hotels and condominiums with the enormous shopping center. After nine years, the interior of the gondola that carries people...
Jennye is the student editor of Labyrinth, the literary magazine at the school where 13 years ago paratroopers had to escort black children through white mobs into class. Today about 20% of the student body of 1,700 is black. Around the pond in front of Central High, blacks and whites chatter amiably, with little outward sign of the turmoil that stunned the nation...
Getch is a labyrinth of memories. He knows the starting line-up of each team that he has coached in his 14 years. and he can replay most of their games with uncanny accuracy. Through soccer, he knows men all over the world, and many who have remained at Harvard. For example, JV soccer coach Seamus Malin played under...
...first maze was the human body. To primitive man, a victim's convoluted intestines were proof that the labyrinth form contained life. Through history, the maze evolved into a means of fortification, an obstacle course designed to protect the castle within by trapping enemies seeking entrance. Modern man reduced the notion to a geometric style of gardening, an intricate network of hedged alleys that can lead a visitor to an open space in the middle-if he makes all the correct turns. Still, mythology lent the maze heroic proportions: it took a Theseus to tackle the labyrinth at Knossos...
...symposium neither proved nor disproved that. But it may have proved something. Midway through the week, the labyrinth had to be shut down for repairs. Now Gallery Director Carl Day, who built the maze with some of his students, understands why society is full of DON'T TOUCH signs. "People sure do break things," he said. "This experience has taught me what a bull the human being really...