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Early this month one of her favorite people, Vermont Ski Instructor Peter Estin, 35, was found dead in a New York hotel room of what was officially described as "visceral congestion." His funeral was in Boston last week. Charlene did not go, but Ghighi flew up in the private plane of George Skakel, brother-in-law of Bobby Kennedy. He returned in the evening, stopped at his Fifth Avenue apartment to dress for a dinner party. Charlene complained of a toothache, so Ghighi went by himself. Charlene and her stepdaughter Marina, 14-Ghighi's daughter by his second wife...
Michigan's new constitution provides for four-year terms (instead of two-year) for the Governor and Lieutenant Governor and other high officials. It requires that the Governor and the Lieutenant Governor be members of the same party (the present Lieutenant Governor, T. John Lesin-ski, is a Democrat). It erases Michigan's strangling short-term-debt limit of $250,000 by authorizing short-term borrowing of up to about $70 million. And it provides for combining the state government's bewildering jumble of 120 administrative segments in a manageable pattern of 20 agencies...
...little Alpine ski resort of Zermatt rakes in a lucrative $10 million from visitors each year, but the authorities there know that customers are notoriously fickle; overnight a touch of bad weather, bad service in the hotels or an ugly scandal can send hundreds of tourists off in a huff to St. Moritz or Davos. Hence the reluctance of Zermatt's townsmen to talk about the curious wave of illness that began popping up three months ago. They stolidly ignored word from a Zurich physician that a patient just back from skiing in Zermatt was down with typhoid fever...
...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...
Born. To Nancy Kwan. 25. Hong Kong-born actress, and Austrian Ski Instructor Peter Pock. 25: their first child, a son; in Innsbruck, Austria. Name: Peter Bernhard Pock...