Word: resorts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...activity is most frantic at Colorado's $13 million Snowmass-at-Aspen, far and away the biggest new winter resort to be developed since Alec Gushing (TIME cover, Feb. 9, 1959) built up Squaw Valley for the 1960 Olympics. At Snowmass, Bill Janss, 49, a millionaire Los Angeles land developer and onetime U.S. Olympic Team skier, has carved out 2,000 acres of slopes with 50 miles of trails and five double-chair lifts on Mount Baldy (13,-162 ft.), which have already matched the ski area of the three nearby mountains served by the town of Aspen proper...
Only when they ran out of fuel for their flamethrowers did the Viet Cong resort to guns. Forcing 160 of the survivors out of their dogholes, they shot 60 of them to death on the spot. Then, finally abandoning the smoking ruins of Dak Son at dawn, they dragged away with them into the jungle another 100 of the survivors...
...maimed by metal shards and searing gasoline. It took two days to reach Nhi Dong Children's Hospital in Saigon, and infection had spread across the burned one-third of his body. Skin grafts failed and Nhon's right hand was amputated, a typical last resort in Viet Nam. The raw burns on his head, arms and legs wept precious protein fluids he could not spare, a virus infection boiled up in one knee, and malnutrition took its toll for eight months as his condition worsened...
Only for Visitors. Lately, the Communists have been turning to brassy, Western-style casinos. Yugoslavia pioneered the big-time play, will soon open its twelfth casino in a Slovenian mountain resort. Designed to shake valuable hard currency from travelers, they were first inspired by Italian tourists. "Italians like girls and gambling," says an executive of Putnik, the state travel agency, "so we gave them nightclubs and casinos." Briefly outraged, Yugoslavia's Communist neighbors soon began setting up their own. Locals are not allowed, but visiting rubes are welcome, even from other Red countries. "Sometimes a Czech visitor walks away...
...Theaters in cosmopolitan Montevideo offer such lively fare as Peter Shaffer's Black Comedy and Strindberg's Miss Julia; in the city's quiet little tearooms, a cup of coffee brings free pastries, potato salad, sausages, octopus, pickled cauliflower and caramel pies. At the pleasant seaside resort of Punte del Este, thousands of high-living tourists spread money around like so many beach blankets. In fact, Uruguay's main problem is that it has too much of a good thing...