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...there are signs of change. On the powder-covered slopes of Idaho's Sun Valley and Alaska's Mount Alyeska. U.S. skiers fought for places on the Olympic team that will travel to Innsbruck. Austria, in 1964. For the first time in years, an air of real optimism hung over the Olympic trials. Seven times last year. U.S. skiers beat Europe's best. And this year, their performance at Sun Valley and Mount Alyeska was so good that U.S. Olympic Coach Bob Beattie could predict: ''We've got a half-dozen skiers...
...denounced at home by the Valais Medical Association for a conspiracy of silence, and disgraced abroad, the Zermatt authorities at last closed down all the hotels and restaurants. To the villagers left stranded in dismal unemployment, it seemed a pity, for nearly a foot of new powder snow fell on the slopes that night. "Absolutely wonderful skiing conditions," mourned Gottlieb Perren, head of Zermatt's famed ski school...
...they had never made a pot of tea in their lives, a wealthy Englishman had a Frenchman to stir his soup, another Frenchman to comb his hair, an Italian to make his pastry, and half a dozen Englishmen to iron his Times, and his wife had a Frenchwoman to powder her back and an Englishman to carry her prayer book...
...just that. With such prestigious companies as P. Lorillard, Kimberly-Clark, Minute Maid, Alcoa and Mennen already signed up for the new adventure, housewives in test areas will soon be finding a bonus of flashy blue and gold Gift Star certificates tucked into or onto everything from baby powder to potato chips. Cold sufferers who grapple for that first sheet of Kleenex, for example, will have to watch out for the coupon imprinted on the pull-out tab. Developed after a two-year study, the coupons will cost companies 1¼? for five (after a $9.500 initiation fee per product...
Named last week were the first two companies chosen for protection: GINSA, the General Tire Corp. subsidiary in Guatemala, and Nicaragua's Hercules Powder Co. insecticide plant. Both will be able to ship their products throughout the Central American market free of tariff and will enjoy the shelter of a high common tariff against competitive imports. Theoretically, there is nothing to prevent their foreign competitors from setting up plants in Central America, too, but such plants would not get the same tariff breaks. All this may well lead to rapid growth for GINSA and Hercules. But it may produce...