Word: skis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...March 12 Sunday Sports Spectacular (CBS, 2:30-4 p.m.). The world bobsledding championships and ski-jumping competition at Lake Placid, N.Y., including a slalom-is-simple demonstration by Penny Pitou...
Virginia's Allegheny Mountains, 160 miles southwest of Washington, where snow usually comes only in unreliable flurries, seems an unlikely spot for a ski resort. Yet last weekend the stately rooms of The Homestead resort were crowded with the parka-and-stretch-pants set. It is the Southland's winter sport resort, and one thing is sure: there should always be snow. Reason: snow machines, an expensive network of pipes, hoses and nozzles lining the ski trails. Water, atomized by a compressed air blast, turns into snow crystals as it sprays out into below-freezing temperatures. Not only...
Business Booster. The Homestead turned to skiing to fill its rooms in winter, when business drops from 500 guests a day during summer to 30. Now, after investing $376,000 in clearing trails, installing a ski lift and a snow machine, winter business is up to 150 guests a day. Homestead's success has encouraged other investors to plan a resort near Gatlinburg, Tenn. The investors are dickering with Larchmont Engineering, Lexington, Mass., the largest manufacturer of snow makers, for machines...
...North the machines are developing a new class of Sunday skiers who do not have the time to spend traveling to the big slopes where the more skilled play. William Ostrander, a Detroit electrician, started Summit Ski Club on 135 hilly acres not far from the city. But in the first year lack of snow forced him to close for two-thirds of the season, and he had only 600 customers. After spending $15,000 on a snow machine, he gets 10,000 skiers in an eleven-week season, now nets about 25% on his $100,000 total investment. "Without...
Disaster Area. Even in normally heavy snowfall areas, machines are a good investment. Wisconsin, which usually has plenty of snow in its ski areas, has had hardly a flake this season, despite the snow that buried cities farther south and in the East...