Word: rossignol
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...line, many brands are similar in quality; yet a special mystique makes it In to buy and use a certain one. Nowadays, from Mt. Fuji to Mt. Blanc-with many mts. in Colorado and Vermont in between-the fashionable ski is "Rossi," fond nickname for the product of Skis Rossignol, a company with headquarters in the French alpine town of Voiron. Rossignol, counting its Dynastar subsidiary, sells more than 16% of the world's skis-1.5 million of the 9 million pairs marketed last year. Before Rossignol's ascendancy, Japan held one-quarter of the market and threatened...
...started two ski-lift companies in his home region of Savoie in 1951, after serving an apprenticeship in his father's fruit and vegetable business. In 1955 he learned from a friend, Emile Allais, a former world downhill and slalom champion, of a nearly bankrupt firm, Societe Rossignol, that produced wooden spools for the textile trade and wooden skis on the side. Boix-Vives borrowed $50,000, bought the firm and laid off everyone but 27 ski makers, creating a lean, one-product shop. Allais soon devised a metal ski that helped France's Jean Vuarnet...
...best equipment to buy, here are a few suggestions on skis. Good skis abound these days, including those made by k-2, Rossignol, Hexcel, Head, Dynastar, and Kneissel. Of this lot, it's difficult to say which are the best, since each ski manufacturer makes a number of different lines. It may be that you'll do best by shopping the sales and taking the best buy. Nevertheless, all other things being equal, I'd have to say that K-2 skis are probably the best all-around skis available. Unlike some of the others, K-2 has maintained...
MONDAY: Stravinsky Remembered. A tribute to composer Igor Stravinsky features a rare performance of the opera "Le Rossignol" along with documentary footage of Stravinsky coaching Jean Cocteau and being painted by Picasso. CH. 2. 8. p.m. Color...
...lived a willful wife who had long refused to let her husband indulge his fancy to possess a prize nightingale. But after the Viet Cong attacked the city, bringing destruction and frightening the people, she took her savings and went to the bird market. There she bought the best rossignol to be had. Returning home, she then presented this symbol of love to her surprised husband with the words: "I have denied you in the past, dear husband, but now that we have no future, we must live for today...