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...sport on which Americans lavish the most money ($1.5 billion). At least 6,000,000 Americans are skiers, and the total is climbing 15% a year. Round the world, more than 20 million people ski. The fast-growing sport has become popular in such unlikely places as Spain, Morocco, Lebanon and Albania. Skiing has also caught on in the Soviet Union; a ski jump overlooks Moscow from the Lenin Hills. For the world's resort owners, hotel operators, travel agents, equipment makers, clothing designers, real estate speculators and orthopedic surgeons, skiing this year will be a $10 billion enterprise...
...Navy was too poor and too battered by the '98 war with the U.S. to accept new officer-candidates. Franco, in any case, entered the army instead. He forsook wine, women, friendships and even religion to concentrate on soldiering. There was ample opportunity for that in Morocco where both the French and the Spanish struggled to subdue rebellious Berber tribesmen. Franco fought in scores of battles, was wounded and advanced rapidly. He became Spain's youngest general...
...smooth, rolling contours can't be missed in his later handling of hats in "Hat Factory" (Luzzara Italy, 1953) (seen in the remarkable tow-violence retrospective monograph published by Aperture this year), and even in the Chiaroscuro of dark and light is such foreign architectural structures as "Gateway" (Rabat, Morocco...
ORSON WELLES CINEMA. Wednesday-Saturday Anna Karenina (Garbo) 4, 7:45, 11:30. Philadelphia Story (Hepburn), 5:40, 9:30. Sunday-Tuesday Morocco (Dietrich...
...Oufkir, are you mad?" replied Hassan. "Even supposing we knew his flight plan, his altitude, his route and we hit him, you must realize that there would be an inquiry. They would find traces of bullets and rockets. In this area only Morocco has F-5s. Can you imagine the international scandal? Piracy in midair against a chief of state?" Then, to put the matter firmly out of hand, the King added: "Oufkir, I absolutely forbid this business...