Word: skiers
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...riques (cabin lifts), garlanded with heated swimming pools, bedecked with strobe-lighted discotheques, the swinging new French resorts have an allure of adventure and practicality all their own. How many ski resorts offer, as La Plagne does, four nightclubs and a Chinese restaurant? Where else can a skier strap on his skis at his front door and gain the lift in a few turns, as he can in Les Arcs or Avoriaz? Such elegant little touches drew more than 1,500,000 skiers and après-ski devotees to the French Alps this season...
...Arcs is a tiny jewel for the passionate skier. Situated near Val d'Isère (Killy's home and the site of last winter's disastrous avalanche), it offers 37 miles of breathtaking and challenging slopes. The atmosphere is, to say the least, clubby. Anyone buying into Les Arcs must be approved by a seven-man board of investors. The result is a homogeneous clientele roughly between the ages of 30 and 45, drawn mostly from publishing and the arts. Although it is primarily designed for serious skiers, it also offers a discothèque with...
...parakiting, the water skier becomes airborne when his trailing parachute pops open. High above Acapulco Bay, the Secretary was doing just fine in his first try at this bold new sport. Then the tow rope from the speedboat snapped, leaving ex-Paratrooper Robert Finch to plunge 150 ft. into the drink. "It was great for my education," said the HEW boss, "but not for my health and welfare...
Billy Kidd, 26, the top U.S. skier, went everyone one better. After winning the gold medal for the best overall performance in the downhill, slalom and giant slalom, he announced that he was turning professional. A week later at Verbier, Switzerland, Kidd competed against 39 other pros in a series of races and schussed off with total winnings of $6,500 in what was billed as the first World Professional Skiing Championships. This week the touring pros moved into Vail, Colo., to race for $50,000 in prize money...
Courageous Skier. For years, the Swiss have been diligently erecting barriers against avalanches, building walls and terraces, planting trees and girding the mountainsides with thousands of steel rails. But their most formidable snowbreakers are often inadequate. Two years ago, only a few miles from the institute and in an area adjudged safe because of the protective presence of a pine forest higher on the slope, an avalanche killed 13 people and demolished 20 chalets. Unable to prevent avalanches, the Swiss believe that it sometimes pays to start them at a time and place of their choosing. One method...