Word: skis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ski Pants and Bikinis...
...Ski Hut, on Charles Street, Boston, lovely Ingrid serves coffee in front of a cheery hearth and the sounds of Cal Tjader fill the room. Here you are treated as a guest as well as a customer who now can take advantage of a gigantic clearance sale on ski sweaters, stretch pants and equipment...
...framing his petulantly mischievous features. He looks like a cross between a grumpy polar bear and a tipsy Greek philosopher. As his equally ancient wife ("a nagger's nagger") frets, scolds, and pokes at him, Ustinov's countenance becomes a weather map of changing frustrations. His eyes ski off at rakish tangents. His jaw chomps erratically over what could be a mouthful of elastics. His arms and fingers do little arcs and spins like dangling mobiles. Even after Ustinov begins to speak, these body tics go on, and it is a tribute to Ustinov as a mugger...
...skating rinks, bowling alleys and on ski slopes made of plastic, Japanese will soon be able to play at one of Japan's most modern resorts, the San-ai Hotel on Hokkaido Island, just an hour's plane ride from Tokyo. Work on the resort began last week when slim and tireless Kiyoshi Ichimura, 62, got permission from his backers to go ahead with the ambitious project. Already one of Japan's fastest rising businessmen, whose nine companies sold $61 million worth of goods last year, Ichimura believes that "to stand still is to lose ground...
...because he has never been injured in 15 years of competition. Crowds of up to 135,000 turn out to watch him make like a bird. He is a national hero in Norway, where his biography is a bestseller, and in Austria children mimic his style on tiny backyard ski jumps-the one who jumps farthest gets to call himself Toralf Engan all day long...