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...resort of Zermatt rakes in a lucrative $10 million from visitors each year, but the authorities there know that customers are notoriously fickle; overnight a touch of bad weather, bad service in the hotels or an ugly scandal can send hundreds of tourists off in a huff to St. Moritz or Davos. Hence the reluctance of Zermatt's townsmen to talk about the curious wave of illness that began popping up three months ago. They stolidly ignored word from a Zurich physician that a patient just back from skiing in Zermatt was down with typhoid fever. They also shrugged...
...slopes by day and carouse, après-ski, in the little town huddled at its base. If the sporty figure sipping a spot of Pernod at the peak is Aristotle Onassis and the lady sitting it out at the bottom is Elsa Maxwell, then the site is St. Moritz. If the set is peopled by a slightly showier crowd, among them players such as Audrey Hepburn, Mel Ferrer and Deborah Kerr, it is Klosters. And if the Greek fellow is named Stavros Niarchos and the other folk include the King and Queen of Thailand, Jordan's King Hussein...
...Just getting around is a kind of admission ticket to the International Set. "The main thing is to be seen in enough right places often enough," said Photographer Zerbe over his shoulder as he hopped a jet in Paris for Rome. "If you're seen at St.-Moritz for the skiing in February, on the beach at St.-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, Paris during the season (although there really wasn't any Paris season this year), if you're in London at the end of July for Ascot, and Dublin the beginning of August for the horse show...
Swissair offers 20 different tours, ranging in price from $552.60 for 17 days at Sestriere and Grindelwald, including all transportation, hotels and meals, to $76.60 for 17 days at St. Moritz and Davos. The line maintains special ski desks at offices and terminals where prospective skiers can check on snowfall, temperature, and the hotel situation at every ski resort in Europe, reports sales up 34% over last year. Virtually every other transatlantic airline has some charter flights for skiers...
...technique. He improved so quickly that he decided to risk his savings on an Alpine tour. Ferries still shudders at the recollection. "I fell in all the down hills. I was tense, and my reflexes always failed." By 1960 Ferries was still falling-at Kitzbühel, St.-Moritz, Squaw Valley. At Stowe, Vt., he streaked through the slalom in record time-only to be disqualified for straddling the final gate...