Word: resorts
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...February is usually carnival time in Petropolis, a mountain resort near Rio de Janeiro. But two weeks of storms washed away this year's pre-Lenten samba parade and general merrymaking. More than 20 in. of rain pelted Petropolis (pop. 250,000) and other cities, triggering floods and landslides that buried whole neighborhoods in tons of mud. By last week the devastation had left more than 200 people dead and 600 injured. But at least 17 people, some buried for 48 hours, were saved when civil defense teams pumped oxygen through tubes pushed into...
Since raising its flag in 1977, Bophuthatswana (pop. 1.7 million) has always been considered the most viable of the four "independent" black homelands | set up by South Africa. Bop, as the homeland is sensibly known, derives substantial revenues from platinum mining and the gambling resort of Sun City. But Bop -- and Pretoria's oft-denounced homeland policy in general -- suffered an embarrassing setback last week, when a coup briefly toppled the government...
...only in the matter of cherished stereotype that this serious-minded innkeeper's son comes up lacking. In public fancy, ski racers, and especially downhillers, are barbarians, berserkers, wearers of iron hats with cow horns sticking out of them. Pirmin, from a minor resort town near Saas-Fee (which is a minor resort near Zermatt), is the sort of nice young man your mother wants your sister to meet. He does not look as if he eats nails. He has curly, reddish-blond hair, an elf's pointy nose and a shy, boyish grin, behind which is real shyness, behind...
...horns department, that Zurbriggen is an exceptionally pious Roman Catholic, who confounds the European sporting press by praying at least twice a day. He is a loner, a man who, in a perfectly pleasant way, keeps his distance. World-class ski racers are traveling performers who migrate together from resort to resort for something like eleven months a year, and who eat, share cable cars, log lobby time and wait out bad weather with the same few dozen people. In such a one-ring circus, Zurbriggen has had only one close friend, the Swiss GS star Max Julen, who retired...
...midwinter, the Alpine village of Davos is an unlikely setting for any kind of thaw, much less one in relations between such bitter adversaries as Greece and Turkey. But a new era of Aegean neighborliness may be under way following secretly arranged meetings in the Swiss resort last month between Greek Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou and Turkish Prime Minister Turgut Ozal. The leaders established two committees, one to foster ties in trade, tourism, banking, communications and culture, another to study perennial disagreements over air space and Aegean seabed and water rights...