Word: mountain
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...hard to find in all of Europe. And more and more Americans are realizing that the U.S. has some natural advantages that can outmatch Europe's best. Europe, for example, has no stretch of shore that surpasses Cape Cod's Great Outer Beach with its soaring bluffs; no mountain lakes that are more breathtaking than those in Colorado or Wyoming; no more challenging golf courses than Pebble Beach and Pine Valley; no finer sailing than Cape Cod or the Maine Coast. Moreover, all the food is American, and all the natives speak English...
...never had any strictly social pretensions. Early on, the natives realized they were sitting on some of the world's most magnificent scenery, and had a climate that would inevitably draw Midwesterners who longed to draw a cool breath?and even Easterners who wanted to see what a real mountain looked like...
...Presidents, gold-plated Texans, royal personages of varying distinction, business tycoons, theatrical celebrities and battalions of generals and retired generals. Actually, though it maintains an agreeably old-fashioned air of opulence which approaches that of the best lodges in Switzerland and Scandinavia, the Broadmoor is not strictly a mountain resort but a vast complex designed to offer something for everybody, summer or winter. Besides such standard accouterments as a lake for waterskiing, swimming pools, a 36-hole golf course, ski slopes, riding and hiking trails, it has an ice palace, a stadium, a 2,400-seat theater where such stars...
...entire mountain region of Colorado has a myriad of old and new resorts which draw thousands of visitors all year round. Aspen, where Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy and her children skied last winter, in summer swarms with intellectuals and scholars attending the Aspen Institute of Humanistic Studies, and this year will draw music lovers for a festival and a conference on contemporary music, featuring lectures by distinguished composers. Vail is a bustling new ski resort built to look like an Alpine village. Texas Financier John Murchison has built a home there, IBM Chairman Thomas Watson owns an apartment, and the resort...
...hundred and fifty miles away is Hound Ears, in the Carolina mountains and opened for only a year. Hound Ears owes much to the personality of its owners Grover and Harry Robbins, casual native sons who let their poodle eat from a dish on the dining-room table and invite any guest who doesn't like it to leave. In the winter, the resort is a favorite ski area and already millionaires are beating a path to its door. Operated both as a club and a hotel, Hound Ears was named for a nearby mountain formation. The Robbins brothers keep...