Word: montes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Weather's Good . . ." During all the hustle & bustle at Cranmore, Mont Tremblant, Sun Valley and Aspen, Andy Mead was growing up. Her parents were as ski-crazy as anybody. Near the Vermont town of Rutland, Bradford and Janet Mead were building up a resort named Pico Peak, and incidentally raising their two children, Andrea and Peter-who is now wasting his early ski training in the Air Force. Ski enthusiasts with an independent income, the Meads made an annual spring pilgrimage to Switzerland's Davos. They brought up their children on a principle which the children thoroughly approved...
...Olympics brought her experience but no honors. And the next two years brought a series of adolescent ups & downs. At the 1949 tryouts for the F.I.S. team at Whitefish, Mont., she won both downhill and slalom. She hardly won another race all year. She fell in love; she had moods of depression; she almost decided to give up skiing...
Down You Go (Fri. 9 p.m., Du Mont). A literate and frequently amusing quiz show...
Henry Adams, in his eloquent book about Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres, called these windows "the most splendid color decoration the world ever saw, since no other material, neither silk nor gold, and no opaque color laid on with a brush, can compare with translucent glass, and even the Ravenna mosaics or Chinese porcelains are darkness beside them...
...needed for the concentrating process. Because exploration is even more expensive, Kelley and others are now going through old diggings to get out the high-cost ore that had been bypassed. Anaconda alone is spending $27 million to tap 130 million tons of such ore in its famed Butte, Mont, properties and another $100 million to process low-grade ore in Chile...